Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
...Pittman liked straight shooting, straight talk, straight whiskey. Despite his 68 years, he was tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough, too, in the tradition of Westerners, never more dangerous than at his extreme politest, with a laconic wit that shot from...
...Broadcasting Symphony. I think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based...
...three made the recording last spring. The Contrasts: a blue Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance), a slow Piheno (Relaxation), an intricate Sebes (Fast Dance), in which Szigeti alternates between two fiddles, one purposely mistuned, and Goodman between A and B-flat clarinets. Composer Bartok stirs up an acrid dressing for his Hungarian tunes, but languid modern palates may like the dish...
...Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast, Fox Press Agent Jack Mulcahy to manage the outfit-all borrowed at their regular studio salaries instead of the higher price usually paid for loan-outs. Happy Agent Morrison quickly booked them in seven cities at a flat rate of $7,500 weekly, $3,300 of which was all Lolly...