Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last are the levies which bear most heavily on the poor, who pay no income tax. These taxes will fall on virtually everything the U.S. citizen enjoys, starting Oct. 1. Excise taxes (which are in effect sales taxes) range from a $1-a-gallon increase on whiskey to a flat 10% on cameras, musical instruments, washing machines, jewelry, cosmetics, rubber goods. Nuisance taxes include such penny-snatching tribute as: 10% on theater tickets costing 10? or more; 5% on nightclub bills; 6% on telephone bills for local calls; 10% on telegrams and long-distance calls costing 25? or more...
...During it a knock-down fight between his father and his bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...
...spite of a flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...
Despite the tedious script (which fails to provide Comic Red Skelton with any comedy at all) and a pox of poor direction (e.g., composing a hit tune in about two minutes flat), the picture has some lively moments: the dead-pan vocalizing of frightened Virginia O'Brien, the up-from-the-jungle hoofing of the Berry Brothers, and the nostalgia of the old sweet Gershwin songs...
...vivid passage on the attempted invasion. "I'm sure that something happened on September 15 . . . . I woke up to hear our next door neighbour backing his car stealthily out of the garage . . . . I leant out the window. The night was calm and moonlit; the moon sparkled on the flat sea. And there was a subdued hum everywhere, far and near, as if hundreds of cars were on the roads and lanes. I was so restless . . . . I got up and dressed and went out, up the road a little way into the fields. I could hear, faintly, how car after...