Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...
Architect Neutra and his fellow members in the cult of the clean line and glassy expanse are as hopelessly enslaved by their own fetishes-the concrete slab, the flat roof, the mantel-less fireplace-as were their predecessors of the gingerbread and rococo schools...
...play itself (which Eliot charted last year with complex blackboard diagrams at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study) marked his departure from Greek myth and medieval legend. Set in a modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...
Said he: "We're flat broke and there are not even tangible promises of money, and as far as I can see now the symphony is all washed...
When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat broke. Fumbling old Isaac was crushed, but his tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent...