Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lalique began as a designer of jewelry. When he first branched off into glass, he worked in his tiny Paris flat. Finally freelancing as a specialist in glass, he acquired his own factories (which closed during the German occupation) and sold as much as he could make...
...beauty and meaning of lighting the first fire in a new home; of using all your strength and sense in hard work and watching the tangible result; of cooking and eating the meat you have hunted and killed; or the anguish of watching all your hopes struck flat by one spasm...
...infantrymen went after them with some new ideas. On Luzon they had discovered that the 90-mm. antiaircraft gun, with its high muzzle velocity and flat trajectory, makes an excellent cave-closing weapon. When the gun is brought into position, its accurate sights permit gunners to draw a sniper's bead on cave mouths thousands of yards away. In twelve days two guns closed over 100 caves on Balete Pass; one cave later yielded 23 Japs, dead of suffocation...
...Right to Gripe. Bernstein's most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major (Vladimir Horowitz and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 12 sides). A reissue of a brilliant 1941 recording. Performance and recording: excellent...