Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FALL GUY?More tough talk but this time in a Harlem flat. Ernest Truex is the unfortunate hero who became a bootlegger against his will...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...
...Sandor Harmati, first violin, Mr. Wolfe Wolfinsohn, second violin, Mr. Nicholas Moldaven, viola, Mr. Emmeran Stocber, violoncello, will play Ravel's Quartet in F. Major. The program, by string quartet: Quartet in F. Major Ravel Fram Divertiments, E. Flat Major Mozart By string quartet and pianoforte: Quintet in E. Flat Major Schumann
...Dennistoun, however, brought suit to recover ?952, which she declared she had at various times lent Colonel Dennistoun. She charged that, in 1923, Dennistoun was living in a luxurious flat in Sackville Street and could afford to pay her. Counsel for defense denied that Colonel Dennistoun had any money from which plaintiff could collect, called the case attempted blackmail of Lady Carnarvon, said that defense had been entered because Mrs. Dennistoun would have continued to demand money if her claim had been paid...
...long men thought the earth was flat. In the latter part of the 15th Century, the idea began to get about that the earth was a sphere...