Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finish-post was passed, Jockey Key Pittman of Nevada neatly unhorsed himself with the flat pronouncement that he did not expect Franklin Roosevelt to proclaim defined combat areas (next day the President did). Nothing dashed by this tumble, the lean Nevadan mounted again on the most improbably romantic idea of the week: that U. S. ships are to be provided with distinctive markings for each side: that the Germans would be advised of the markings on one side, while the Allies would be told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further...
...viola player and chief violist of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Orchestra; a small, plump, snub-nosed young woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers as the Budapest Quartet bothered her no whit, for she is the best woman French horn player...
Like most Big Ten teams, it had a line that averaged 200 Ibs., had reserves three deep. Among its backs were two streaks who could run 100 in 10 flat. And the prize Host Yost wanted most to show off was its 194-lb. halfback, Tom Harmon, who at 20 and only half way through his second year in a Varsity jersey, has been hailed as the No. 1 footballer of the year...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...
...movements have a lyrical lushness which will probably be considered saccharine in not so many years. The last movement is in a style which Roussel favored in his middle life. Dance-like and acridly dissonant, it has the same verve for which many passages in the Symphony in B Flat and Pour une Fcte de Printemps are so remarkable...