Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening a Brahms program will be given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Koussevitsky in Symphony Hall. The first number will be the so-called, Tragic Overture, which will be followed by Concerto No. 2, in B flat major for pianoforte and orchestra will present the second Symphony in D major...
...program of tonight's concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which Serge Koussevitsky will lead in Sanders Theatre this evening is as follows: Prokofleff Classic Symphony Op. 25 Solo Concerto for violincello and orchestra Schumann Symphony in B-flat major...
...boys will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally may tell the candidates that they are all going to have a great time together. But the big idea is work...
Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...Manhattan. He still meant what he had said a year ago: "Lofts, office buildings and high-grade apartment construction was overdone. These types are overbuilt and we will not finance any more buildings of this character. However, we are lending money for small apartments or flat houses and one and two-family houses." When he had first said this, President Simon William Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. had not agreed with him entirely. Mr. Straus' house, beyond cavil, underwrites more mortgage bonds than any other concern in the country. His estimate of the nation's building situation...