Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abolish the undistributed profits tax. substituting a flat 18% corporation income tax with special exemptions for small business...
...Abolish the undistributed profits tax. substituting a flat 18% corporation income tax with special exemptions for small business...
Only one falls flat. That nobody can do anything with the puerile plot of The Comedy of Errors was shown this season when Rodgers & Hart found it the snag in their otherwise delightful The Boys from Syracuse. But the Old Globe's The Taming of the Shrew picks up enormously by having Kate take the count within 45 minutes, becomes, indeed, an exuberant comic-strip courtship. Best of the four productions is A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...tory against the Holy Cross Crusaders as a weary Crimson hurling corps was not quits equal to the occasion, bowing to a 7 to 6 defeat. Art Johns and his "nothing" ball was drafted into service to start the game, but the Crusaders got to him in one inning flat. Slim Curtise did a nice relief job, only to see victory slip from his grasp in the eighth...
...Home. In foreign capitals Litvinoff rode around in a shiny limousine with a tiny red flag attached, stayed at luxurious hotels, ate fine foods, drank good wines, dressed like the traditional diplomat. At home he made no such concessions to bourgeois tastes. He lived in a modest flat with his English-born wife and two handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory...