Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still is, extremely harsh. Those hardy enough to apply for permission to marry are required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight percent of the couples genuinely in love are given a flat "no" on the implied grounds that the Korean is a sort of subhuman type unfit for life...
...piece of wire, for here the corridor turns in a sharp L. Around the corner, you find yourself blindly stumbling over people's feet, and hear voices whispering. A voice hoarse with age or cold: "From Greifswald you come? Last night?" A woman's voice, dull and flat: "Not much, about 60 marks left." A man's voice, strong with impatience: "How long must we wait? Do they think we are cattle?" The voice of an older man, speaking assurance to himself: "All will be well soon-when we are on the plane." The angry voice again...
...Flat-Hatter. In Lincoln, Neb., Louis Kramer, suing for $25,000, charged that Emil Aksamit was trying to alienate his wife's affections by buzzing their house in an airplane...
...situation was worst in France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and pupils. Chief Flu-Fighter Dr. Lucien Bernard, of the Ministry of Public Health, was struck down himself...
Finally Mom decides to give up Fletcher for Michael, and the third act finds mother and son doing nicely thank you at a rather too cheory, peaches-and-cream colored flat in another part of London. When Sir John returns, with a divorce promised, and still in love, Mom at first refuses to marry him, but over a couple of shots of gin with Michael, Fletcher gives the boy ideas for his own love life. Somehow the boy matures and understands, and though the audience is never sure quite how it happened, True Love conquers...