Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco. Willis T. Geisman's family lives in an upstairs flat on Ramona Avenue. His father owns the building, rents out the downstairs, works in the basement as a photofinisher for neighborhood drugstores. Willis was his father's assistant through grade and high school, went to the University of California, went to Alaska as a Government photographer. He joined the Marines in 1940, was stationed first in Shanghai...
...heed the voice of its people-and of the Russians-had been piling up for weeks past. But, wrapped in the rhetoric of Winston Churchill and the cautious legal phrases of Sir Stafford Cripps, they had somehow lacked the impact of a pledge. Last week the assurance came, not flat, not unequivocal, but clear...
Malcolm H. Holmes, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will then conduct the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in five orchestral selections: Sinfonia, "To Thee Alone be Glory," by Bach; Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, Minuet: Allegretto, by Mozart; Polka from "The Bartered Bride," by Smetana; Polka from "The Golden Age," by Shostakovitch; and March from "Peter and the Wolf," by Prokoflef...
Even though I am a pacifist, too, I suddenly wanted to know a man like that, to fight alongside him. No patriotic utterances had ever stirred me before, because they are so often flat and dead, tied up with a dying order; but this one did. It is a new depth and a new light...
...Tortilla Flat (Frank Morgan, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr; TIME...