Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first postwar full-dress Trooping the Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...
Last week, he unwrapped a new left hook. It put one sparring mate on the floor with his ears humming. Another got knocked flat twice. The boys who dropped in for a look hustled back to town to find a bookie and make a bet. Walcott's odds, once a tempting 4 to 1, fell sharply. By week's end, they were 11 to 5, and would probably be lower by next week when Jersey Joe takes his second shot at Joe Louis' crown...
...round (in which Zale knocked him sprawling with another left), bewildered Rocky was dazed and bleeding. Through the second round, Rocky snarled savagely, but it was the snarl of a wounded animal. At 1:08 of the third round, Zale landed the knockout blow, another sizzling left. Rocky fell flat on his back and lay very still...
...cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...