Word: flatted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even in 1919, when Anna Gosko got her first look at him, Adolf Balaban was no matinee idol. He was an awkward, wistful little fellow with a flat face, jug ears, and old-country manners. He wasn't the smartest man in the world, either. He had been "over" from Poland for six years, had served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He had a laborer's job in a Brooklyn sugar refinery, but he could speak hardly a word of English...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...
...phone said it was a bit of an emergency. Could Mrs. Dorothy Dobson sing top D flat? "Just a minute," said Dorothy. She had just had a baby and felt a little out of practice. She went to her piano, tried the note, and then reported back: yes, she could sing top D flat...
...Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home. She was to keep her three notes and 5 guineas a secret...
From Milan, Madame Grandi assured her British public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording...