Word: flat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stationary lake. These were 7,500 square miles of rushing, swirling, mud-laden watery avalanche in which Death lurked for hundreds. At the end of the first week the fatalities were put at 200 and increased steadily. About 100,000 valley-dwellers were made homeless, from Cairo to the flat Gulf delta, on both banks...
...program is as follows: Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue Bach Sonata in A-flat major, op. 26 Beethoven Andante con Variazione Scherzo March Fannebre sulla Morte d'un Eroe Rondo. After an intermission he will play: Two Etudes, Op. 25 Chopin No. 7, C sharp minor No. 9, G flat major La Solree dans Grenade Debussey Ravel Valee Nobles et Sentimentales Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7. Flirtation in a Chinese Garden Abram Chasins Caprice Espagnol Mosskowski
Twenty-three and a quarter centuries ago, a short, grotesque man, thicknecked and paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing...
...after the story is under way, no fairminded reader will deny that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...
...subject to various fines and sentences," Mr. Hamilton continued. "Yet, some form of censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...