Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North. On the Leningrad Front the Germans pressed hard, in a hurry clean things up before mud cluttered things up. In that sector the worst rains probably over, but the days were getting so short, the sun's rays were beginning to slant so flat that soon, perhaps within a fortnight, what little new did fall would never dry. Mud would get deeper, softer, crueler...
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, eight sides). German Exile Walter makes this romantic symphony as light and clear as Rudesheimer Schlossberg...
Dvorak: Quintet in E Flat Major (Prague String Quartet with Richard Kosderka, second viola; Victor; eight sides). Czech Dvorak's U.S. visit in the 1890s inspired this and other "American" works (From the New World, "American" Quartet, etc.), in which Negro and Indian themes are always on the verge of doing a polka. Good first recording...
...wage boost, to include all the nation's 27,000 unionized makers of tableware, lighting fixtures, tubing, lenses-from the semiskilled up to the offhand caster plate workers at the tiptop of the craft's rigid craft system. Not included in their ranks: workers in bottles, jars, flat glass...
...Connecticut they found a big black woman who was "something called Baptist," tried chewing raw tobacco leaf, discovered they were being "kidded" when other youngsters in school asked them if they wanted Germany to win the war. School patriotism threw them into a flat spin. They thought at first the mumbled words of the salute to the flag meant "Routine and Justice...