Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the note was being prepared, elaborately unofficial sources let newsmen understand that a new, reluctant Polish offer fell far short of Moscow's categoric minimums. Churchill faced the galling prospect that his second note on behalf of his passionate, intractable charges would fall as flat as the first...
Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B Flat Major (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 8 sides). Chausson's symphony, written in 1890 before the composer's death (at 44) in a bicycle accident, combines somewhat Wagnerian romantic fervor with fine Parisian workmanship. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...flat car carried his Rolls-Royce and Packard staff cars, ready to be rolled off for trips to camps away from the railheads. The train was in constant radio communication with the General's permanent headquarters; dispatch riders pursued him with secret messages...
...good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...
Life Begins at 30. For six weeks, in a Chicago hospital, Sturges lay flat on his back. He emerged with an absolute determination to become a playwright, a no less absolute confidence in his ability. Sturges' second play, Strictly Dishonorable, which he wrote in six days, was a great Broadway comedy hit, running 69 weeks...