Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying, scheming, writing about the Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
Most of the royalties came from a two-record album of the pieces Iturbi played anonymously in the movie life of Chopin, A Song to Remember,* and Iturbi's record of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which sold 800,000 copies...
...quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...
...valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union en masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging for men to fill his depleted staff. Said one agency last week: "The palace wages offered...
Freddy now dates this part of his life as "B.C.-before concerto," which means before the 1941 Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about...