Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked to Leo Tolstoy about Homer. So, at least, her kinspeople told her. Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
...traditional moving day (May 1) neared, 1,000 families were on a vain hunt for houses to rent. One man advertised: "Shall I drown my wife and baby or will someone rent us an apartment?" He got 200 calls asking if he had done it, one offering a flat...
...Urumchi is full of bloody touches (like the nice flat place where the Moslems slaughtered 40,000 Chinese in cold blood) and we spent about a week there being entertained royally and well. Then we got another plane across the Tien Shan Mountains to Kuldja in the Hi Valley in a regular land of milk and honey, where we gorged ourselves on chicken and beef and white rolls and fruit...
They went into action in August during the Guadalcanal attack. It was the beginning of a long and violent campaign. Up & down the lush green coasts and pale, flat waters of the Solomons, the 2,100-ton O'Bannon and her sisters steamed with bones in their teeth and a swift hard punch for Japanese ships great or small...
Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...