Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, fishermen put out in a small boat into Topsail Inlet, a cove varying in width from 1,300 yards to a mile, surrounded by flat, marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year...
...skin from John's hip, swing the tube across Clara's abdomen, and fix the end in her flesh. When that operation heals, Dr. Moran will perform the final stage of the graft. He will slit the sausage-like tube from end to end, spread it flat upon the girl's abdomen to attach itself soundly...
...proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...
...Between the Devil" is a light-hearted musical comedy, urbane and sophisticated, but innocent of satire and wit. Humorous explosives are prepared with care, but as a rule they fizzle instead of firing. Howard Dietz's book is rather flat, both in incident and dialogue, but in ample compensation it does serve as a vehicle for some very pleasant songs, an actor and two actresses of considerable charm, handsome sets, and some amusing byplay...
Like Artur Schnabel, he no longer bothers to practise with any regularity. He claims he did plenty of practising in his youth to last him all his life. Mr. Hofmann's favorite avocation is inventing mechanical gadgets. Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein) Beethoven Kreisleriana (Six movements) Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope...