Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twosome and one foursome. The English have never won a Walker Cup series since the trophy was put in competition (1922). Dressed in a red and brown tweed knicker suit, the Prince of Wales watched the matches, chatted with the players, imitated with satirical intention the waddle of a flat-footed British galleryite, went down on hands and knees an front of the gallery to see the putting better, chewed...
...make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits and-sits, oozes urbanity, overboiled coffee and Japanese prints, and almost succeeds in making the picture a bore. That it attains mediocrity instead of flat failure is due to the rest of the cast, notably William Boyd (not the William Boyd) who makes perhaps the smoothest gangster seen in these parts since the Wall Street Explosion. Paul Lukas as the flat foot causes one to wonder what, if anything, Law and Order is coming...
...secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery...
Mozart's Quartet in B Flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $6) - This is called the "Hunting Quartet" because a theme in the first movement resembles a hunter's horn. The Adagio, tranquil and in no way suggestive of the skelter of the field, is played by the Leners with expert tenderness...
...bettered by one-sixteenth inch the old record set by Reb Russell of Lynn Classical in 1924 when he leaped five feet 10 1-2 inches. Al Morin, of David Prouty, set a new meet record in the 100-yard dash when he ran the distance in 10 seconds flat. He also won the running broad jump in his class making a leap of 21 feet...