Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summons for military service, with a sharp reminder that, if he ignored this one, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police would drop around. Burrows, a Boer War veteran, is 66. Charlie Morton, a glassworker in Vancouver, B.C., also got a summons. Said Morton, who is 72: "I've got flat feet, a bad right arm, and a stiff back, but if they need me, I'm willing...
...fell off, Allied troops were shouldering through to snatch prizes like Strasbourg and Belfort. But such openings would not tear the German fence down. Only when Bradley burst through, or when Montgomery turned the end of the fence in The Netherlands, would the Allies be able to lay it flat...
...Actress Chase the role of Devon Elliott, a manufacturer of haunting perfumes. Devon's career is notable, her lure considerable, but her life somehow becomes a champagne bucket of ashes. Her husband loves her, yet leaves her; her refugee swain loves her, yet has a girl in every flat. Seeking to blend Park Avenue with poignancy, brittle talk with amorous bruises, In Bed We Cry is much less a slice of life than a setup for an actress who wants to do everything from scintillate to suffer...
...blue-eyed woman with high cheekbones that betray her Norwegian ancestry, she lives in a small apartment in Manhattan's musical Fifties. She is married to Edward Gates, a CBS production man, and is quite certain that marriage and a career mix perfectly. Says she, in her rather flat, methodical manner: "My husband has his own career and keeps himself very busy. Everyone needs someone he can trust, someone he can let his hair down to. Anyone who is self-sufficient must be a completely selfish person...
...Howard's United Feature Syndicate. On Dec. 13 (his 47th birthday), Pearson planned to go to work for independent Bell Syndicate, whose stable of writers includes Emily Post, Dorothy Dix, John Kieran. Happy as a grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence on General Patton's staff - received only a percentage of the take from the columns' sales...