Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours. All but half an inch of this amount fell inside two hours. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done to property and one serious accident caused by the cloudburst, when an oil storage tank was struck by lightning and a man burned in a pool of burning oil. Two flat-roofed frame buildings collapsed from the weight of water in the gutters. Telephone girls went to work in bathing suits...
...hall success?thanks partly to the assistant he had rescued from starvation?a young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well-cast and furnishes an innocuous evening's entertainment. Adapted from a novel, of W. J. Locke, it suffers...
...subaltern of the Guards struck a policeman with the flat of his sword because he failed to salute the King's colors, which were carried past him oy the Guards' Regiment...
...first round Signor Giunta received a blow in the abdomen, but, as he had managed partly to parry the thrust, he was only struck with the flat of his opponent's sword. In the second round both combatants were wounded, Forni in the face and right hand, Giunta in the right arm. The doctors then stopped the bout...
...William B. Kahn (operatic name, Frieda Hempel): " On returning to Manhattan from a concert tour I discovered that thieves had ransacked my apartment. They took my $15,000 chinchilla coat, all my initialed lingerie and all the flat silver. In addition they smoked many of Mr. Kahn's best cigars-but they missed 200 bottles of old wine...