Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compete with the previous showing of the picture of the same name and cast. Recognizing the odds against a legitimate show trying to buck a movie version, Victor Moore, in a curtain speech, expresses the gratitude of the company for the many theatre goers who "prefer round actors to flat ones...
...Ambassador and Mrs. Winant took a modest four-room flat in London, stood on the roof watching the brutal bombing attacks of 1941's spring. Often he walked all night through the streets when bombers were overhead, talking to the people...
...knocked the Ambassador and Frau von Papen flat on the asphalt pavement. It blew the trousers off the Ambassador. It blew another man entirely to pieces-probably the man who had carried the bomb-and spattered his blood as far as the Papens...
...villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough to tell time or manage a knife & fork would see through Evelyn in two minutes flat...
...ripper's first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...