Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bludger is a sleazy hood, Flat stoney is broke as can be. Bokker means it's bloody good, And a basket of oranges...
...Dave Jenkins are likely to keep their titles for years to come. Jenkins, a junior at Colorado College, is getting over the handicap of being the brother of Superstar Hayes Alan Jenkins. As for Carol, a high-school junior from Ozone Park, N.Y., Coach Pierre Brunet makes a flat prediction: "She is still ascending. She should be at her best for the 1960 Olympics...
...Priscilla (Sallie Wolfe). Baker's voice is shaky, but he was a solidly insecure bohemian. Miss Wolfe's singing voice is pleasant, but her acting was wooden. As Fred's intellectual playmate, Alice Oberg's red hair and fluid hips more than excused her voice as she sang, "A Flat on Brattle Street...
...when he is not playing literary lion for the public, stringy Author Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, was about to sup one evening with his true love, mousy Joy Stewart, 25, in his bohemian quarters in London's West End. Without warning, the door of the book-glutted flat was suddenly flung open and in burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin...
...Italy's entertainment tax receipts (eleven lesser opera companies were granted a smaller percentage). By 1955, this had boosted the annual opera packet to $6,000,000. Last fall the government announced that it would press for a law establishing the subsidy at a flat $4,000,000 yearly. This would not affect the music, said economy-minded Budget Minister Adone Zoli, but would merely curtail extravagant choreographic and scenic effects...