Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings were almost an auction. Manhattan offered $150,000 St. Louis offered $150,000 and 130 hotel rooms at reduced rates. Chicago offered $165,000 plus the proceeds of the sale of the concessions at the Convention Hall. San Francisco offered $200,000 flat. Manhattan raised the ante $55,000 (see THE PRESS) to $205,000 and promised to bear the expense of preparing the Convention Hall. San Francisco raised her bid $5,000, to $205,000. But Manhattan was pulling stronger. On the third roll call the hammer fell: Sold to Manhattan; delivery on June 24 next...
...movements from the Bach Italian Concerto, in the first of which he was noticeably nervous and therefore inaccurate. The second he played with a real depth of emotion and stylistic discrimination perhaps unexpected of him. In the Chopin number which followed, the Fantasie-Impromptu, a Mazurka, the A Flat Ballade, he again disclosed a wealth of poetic imagination, proving himself a really great Chopin player...
...KING VERSUS WARGRAVE-J. S. Fletcher - Knopf ($2.00). Marco Graffi, teacher of languages, one November morning was found stabbed to the heart in his London flat. Beautiful Gemma Graffi, living with him as his granddaughter, had vanished. A verdict of willful murder was brought against her by a coroner's jury. Our hero, Adrian Graye, medical student, who happened along in the fog at the psychological moment, nevertheless believed her innocent. So did John Wirlescombe, noted detective. All of which made things interesting when the missing Gemma turned up again seven years later as Lady Wargrave, widow...
...uncanny accuracy in the first period held the Crimson to a single tally, the result of a quick feint by Beals. Half way through the second session, however, he began to weaken, and there-after was not such a riddle to the University skaters. Several times he dropped flat and saved scores from scrimmages at his door-step. On three occasions Referee Sands ordered a face-off only three feet from the net, but each time the Tech goal-tend pulled out safely...
...program is in three parts. The Brahms Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano is said to be Brahms' favorite among all his chamber music. It is of several piano-clarinet pieces which the composer wrote for and dedicated to Carl Muhlfeldt, a celebrated clarinet player. The Cesar Franck Sonata for violin and piano is one of the most effective modern pieces written for that combination...