Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain, but he himself had grown up in New Zealand, scraped an education in state schools and taken his first job on an up-country sheep farm at 12/6 ($2.50) a week. He married a registered nurse who now helps raise their two children in a basement flat...
...makes 1,308 different varieties of candy, ice cream and cakes (his St. Patrick's Day ice cream is labeled "Erin Ga Blum"). Levy also prodded sales with some merchandising razzle-dazzle, put candy in everything from French porcelain dishes and satin hats to great, flat, silver-wrapped boxes the size of dinner trays. He plugged snob appeal and "personalized" packages. (Singer Hildegarde's is shaped like a grand piano...
...fall to see the reason for ending the concert with Benjamin's Overture to an Italian Comedy. Though the performance was good, it is a slight piece and would have been far less of a sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able...
Reversing a more usual stage procedure, They Knew What They Wanted is a soppy play with a sensible ending. And to reach the right destination, it takes a very slow course through extremely flat country. There is endless talk, much of it in rather baffling broken English. Paul Muni's performance as the husband is studiously misconceived. Carol Stone is almost as much out of line, though more likable, as the girl. In every respect, old-hat playwriting has received a straw-hat production...
...banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies sweated daily as they hurriedly built shoddy houses...