Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat five-dollar fee will cover all events scheduled for the weekend, which will include two one-act plays on Friday afternoon, a jazz concert staged by the Harvard Jazz Band Friday night, and dinner and the traditional freshman dance Saturday night...
Next day Pope Pius XII placed the flat red cardinal's hat on the head of peasant-born Joseph Mindszenty and 31 other prelates. As he did so, the Pope pronounced an ancient formula...
...outskirts of Paris one day in 1946, Reeves Lewenthal, a wide-awake young U.S. art dealer, stopped his car, got out and ruefully inspected a flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
When singing rehearsals started, one singer insisted he knew his role perfectly and demanded to be excused. He got a flat "no"-and a piece of conductorial lip besides. Snapped Reiner: "I learn things in rehearsal, and it is possible that a singer may. I believe you should take the risk...
When it was first published in 1933 (in an edition of 1,300 copies), Poet Edward Estlin Cummings' journal of a visit to Russia fell flat. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style filled with puns, parodies and typographical innovations, it seemed on the surface a needlessly complicated work on a subject of no great difficulty-a trip from Paris to Moscow (and back by Odessa and Constantinople) on which nothing happened...