Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago." Between Chicago's police and the Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital of the Clark Street scene, with the flat accusation that real policemen had done the "job" as a disciplinary measure to gangsters who had failed to pay up promised "hush money...
There you have just about all the hokum ever used in plays about the war. Some of it falls pretty flat, too, but it is surprising how in the last two acts it manages to keep the play above water. Now and then Mr. Jessel breaks into song, and though the songs aren't much he carries them...
...once believed that the earth was flat, but not even a monkey could believe he was related...
During succeeding centuries, especially during the 19th, scientist-philosophers recognized more and more elements in nature. Once the world was considered flat with the sun leaping over it daily, the moon nightly. Then Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) showed that the moon spun around the earth and that the moon and earth together spun around...
...taught himself to play the piano. In music he prefers Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, Mozart most of all. He also plays the violin well. A concert is one of the few evening attractions that will entice him out of his flat below his study. He goes to bed early and rises early. Another lure is any opportunity to play his fiddle to the inmates of a Jewish home for the aged. Dr. Einstein is a conservative Jew, a Zionist and, politically, a Socialist. So is his wife, Frau Elsa Einstein...