Word: flat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compensation" to be earned by prisoners committed for their second offense is reduced to two months per annum. (Thus, a second offender sentenced to ten years flat cannot get out before eight years, four months. Before, he might be free in about six years.) Prisoners sentenced as habitual criminals must now stay in jail for the length of their natural lives, unless released by clemency of the Governor...
...Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine for a local operatic golddigger. Asked his opinion, Liszt silently laid his hands on the keyboard and, beginning with the unique tremolo in the bass, played his beloved Sonata in A flat. Victor Halvéy, French poet, writes that until then he had never understood Weber's music, which now brought tears to his eyes and silence to his former sneers...
...great outcry arose from twenty platforms full of women in Hyde Park, London, last week, and a still greater whine of approbation surged from the lips of 100,000 ladies there assembled. The females, mostly shod in flat heeled shoes, had marched to outlaw war and many a one of them had tramped, Chauceresquely, across the length of England to contribute personally her mite to the splendid idea. There were miners' wives, actresses, professional women, society dames...
...tired referee that staggered out of a Manhattan ring last week where awkward Light-Heavyweight Champion Paul Berlenbach had been defending himself against flat -footed Challenger Billy ("Young") Stribling. The latter had spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of range of a vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping...
...usual sort, with classic and popular music in a balanced nation. The program for Saturday follows: March, "El Capitan" Sousa Overture to, "Orpheus" Offenbach Largo from "Xerxes" Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Legend Holy Prelude in D-flat Glazonnov-Jacchia Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Godard (Solo 'Cello--Jacobus Langendoen) Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel