Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James has been playing Hitler for three months, and he has sung the second act finale with all the finesse of one who has read deep in "Mein Kampf", which Mr. James has told his supporters is "the greatest human document ever written." But Mr. James's singing is flat, his song trite, and his supporting cast a handful of hams...
...unfortunate that the Stradivarius Quartet concert scheduled for Wednesday evening had to be postponed. The quartet was to play Beethoven's Quartet in E flat, op. 12; a Wolzan-Kodaly Serenade for two violins and viola; and Quartet No. 4 by Milhaud. It is to be hoped that this concert will be given later in the season...
...Japan's Foreign Office handed British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie a flat note demanding that Britain hand over the 21 Germans taken three weeks ago from the Japanese liner Asama Mam. Britain sat tight on her rights. In Tientsin, U. S. citizens as well as Britons suffered from renewed tightening of the British Concession blockade, Japanese military planes roared angrily back & forth 500 feet above the Concession's buildings...
...rewrite man, Copeland Burg will still get up every morning at 5, work till 2 p.m. In his spare time, which does not belong to Mr. Hearst, he will paint still life and landscapes in his flat, expressionist style...
...winter of 1928 a sallow, jittery, 23-year-old Russian pianist named Vladimir Horowitz made a sensational Manhattan debut at a Carnegie Hall concert under the baton of gouty Sir Thomas Beecham. So steely brilliant and ballistically precise was his performance of Tschaikowsky's B Flat Minor Concerto that Manhattan critics hailed him as "the most successful artist to appear before the American public in a decade." For Pianist Horowitz that success was the first swell of a long crescendo. He was soon one of the biggest box-office draws in U. S. music...