Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program will be: Harvard March "Our Director" Bigelow Symphony No. 12 (B-flat Major) Haydn Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, opus 18 Rachmaninoff (First Movement--Moderato) Mr. Slontmsky, soloist Intermission Soprano Solos a. Recit et Air from "L'Eafant Prodigue". Debussy Mr. Slonimsky, conducting b. Impressions Slonimsky Le Fuite de la Lune Silhouettes Valse Lento Delibes La Fille du Regiment (entracte) Donizetti Rakoezy March (from "Damnation of Faust") Berlioz Fair Harvard
...Diaz (recognized by the U. S.) announced last week that, aided by a $1,000,000 loan placed in Manhattan, he will be able from now on to pay his Conservative soldiers 50¢ a day. As an earnest of this the Conservative troops were reported to have received a flat payment of $2.50 each last week, pending the arrival of promised U. S. gold...
...father provides him his first pair of long trousers, the adolescent breaks out in a romantic rash with tragic freckles. He mounts his trusty, high-spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous...
...blooded charges for the press to print. Last week it was gossiped about that Charlie had agreed to part with $500,000 if Lita would call off the hounds of the law. Mrs. Chaplin questioned, said: "My attorneys instruct me not to talk." Her attorneys, more voluble, issued a flat denial...
...after a decade of writing unpopular novels. He has not, however, added to this facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting...