Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulse of the nation or even of Pawnee County. Neither did the Lenox Time Table ("The Only Newspaper in the World That Cares Two Whoops for Lenox, Iowa") nor the Trinity County (Calif.) Journal, nor any of the rest of the Bugles, Couriers and Standards which came smudgily from flat-bed presses in the nation's small towns. But this week, as every week, the nation's country weeklies held a feel and flavor of U.S. life which no big-city daily captured. Their editors really knew the people who were voting...
...good health and guides you safely through traffic to the ballpark. When your turn comes, He takes you by the hand and leads you up to the plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years ago, the greying boy wonder shuffled off to Buffalo to manage the minor-league Bison team...
Garry Essendine (Clifton Webb) is the center-and usually the storm center-of a brittle theatrical group. He has a spare room for attractive women who have "lost their latchkeys"; he loves 'em & leaves 'em-sighing for more; the last thing in his flat he would part with is his mirror; and he insists that he wants quiet but thrives on scenes...
Under the new schedule, teaching fellows on a full time basis will get $3000 per year instead of $2500, annual instructors were upped from $3000 to $3500 per year, and assistant professors moved from a graduated bracket of $4000-4250 up to a flat $4500 yearly salary. All increases, the Provost said, are to be effective as of October 1 this year...
Hitting all the flat notes of "Abie's Irish Rose," this caponized musical comedy is distinguishable from a high-school senior show only by the tunefulness of Sammy Fain's songs and the occasional appearances on stage of Miss Vivienne Segal of "Pal Joey" fame. And since Miss Segal isn't visible for more than 20 minutes, one wonders why she ever became enmeshed in this melange of heavenly half-backs, very un-Celtic wans of the Fighting Irish, and the 1946 Army-Notre Dame game...