Word: flatted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gordon Wiley took the 50 as expected in 24 flat, ahead of Ted McNitt and Lonnie Stowell. The 220, the 100, and the 440, however, were all one-two Crimson sweeps, with Captain Frannie Powers Art Bosworth, Bus Curwen, Frank Gorman and Stowell in the winning roles. Midshipman Jim Conger was expected to be troublesome in the distances so Gorman's victory over him for second in the quarter was something of a surprise. Curwen, of course, was an easy winner...
Moving daily further from the fire brands of the Reunited Nationalists, General Hertzog first declared openly against Germany, then in November left the party flat, taking many supporters, mostly oldsters, with him. Last week those supporters formed the Afrikaner Party, to follow Hertzog's anti-German foreign policy...
Iceman Uline's Washington Arena was bigger news than his first show. The show's biggest hit was Red McCarthy who, wearing a skin-tight silver suit, streaked around the rink in a red spotlight. On opening night featured Belita Turner, appearing as a harem dancer, fell flat on her stomach...
...June 11 Mrs. Jolas phoned Joyce that she had found a two-room flat in St. Gérand-le-Puy, urged him to move there for safety. Joyce refused. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book* that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Mrs. Jolas said she hadn't. "Well," said Joyce, "it wouldn't hurt to drop a postal card into the box." The Nazis crossed the Marne...
...nothing that Santa Claus brought with him last Christmas. The networks have been cursing under their breath at ASCAP since 1932, but a few months ago they balked out loud at a demand for five per cent of the broadcasters' commercial business. ASCAP, they said, was charging unfair flat rates. It was paying eighty per cent of the writers' incomes to twenty per cent of the writers. It was a union. It was a monopoly. It was a new kind of musical big bad wolf. But hadn't the broadcasters' revenue doubled? Hadn't they sunk a juicy...