Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furthers the comedy talents of Rosalind Russell (which were first frontpaged in The Women), but the picture's love interest. Hildegarde appears as a young woman, trying to leave the news paper business. She begins bravely by divorcing her husband and managing editor, Walter Burns (Gary Grant), falls flat for Insuranceman Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), who has rubbers, an umbrella and a companionate mother...
...heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...
...Ulen reached into his bag of tricks and pulled forth Eric Cutler as a 100 breaststroke. The Crimson captain sped through the century in 54 flat to beat favorite Bob Schaper of Brown by a touch. Cutler had already annexed his regular 220 in 3:18, just ahead of Frannie Powers, and would have been ready to take on all comers in the 440 had the score demanded...
...fourth in the finals. The Freshman was state champion in the 220 low hurdles and shows promise of breaking his six second time if he can shoot from the starting mark faster. Don Donahne didn't seem to be near top form; although he won his heat in six flat, his start was slow, and he stopped on all three hurdles to lose the semi-finals in a close finish...
Personal and harshly bitter though the book is in essence, it sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...