Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selections to be rendered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra tomorrow afternoon are: variations on a Theme by Haydu; Pianoforte Concerto in B flat No.2: and Symphony No.4 in E Minor...
Sunday afternoon, March 23: Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Pianoforte Concerto in B-flat No. 2; Symphony No. 4 in E minor...
...Eddy." At Cambridge this languid and effeminate prince was called by his fellow undergraduates "Collar and Cuffs" (the present Prince of Wales was "Pragger Wagger" at Oxford. An ejaculation which "Collar and Cuffs" could be depended on to utter in almost any circumstances was "Really!" in a particularly flat drawl. Nevertheless he, the Duke of Clarence, was definitely the favorite child of his proud mother, later Queen Alexandra. Possibly apocryphal but thoroughly typical is the following tale...
...doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother. For this extract will not help such as I either in pill form or serum. Am 26, single, bulldog head, (ed) and flat feet. And when my pituitary snaps, loquacious...
...North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar in stead of two, raised three quarter tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered three quarter tones by double-humped flats. Pianist Earth feels, as do many who have heard him on the Pacific Coast, that this quarter-tone invention provides music with a far greater color range. Some critics praised him last week, foresaw a whole...