Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the softness of bats, seven ghosts settled down on the flat roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta. They found someone else already there: a statuesque female figure, crouching, with her eye glued to one of the holes in the roof (it had been through the Russian Revolution, three years of civil war, 21 years of Socialist reconstruction, the German invasion and the Russian reoccupation...
...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...
...came a knock on the door. A young, weatherbeaten face peered in. "You have a package for me?" asked Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
...Philip. Since then, for 28 days they had dallied in London and Lausanne under the sympathetic eye of Michael's Mama, Queen Helen, while Michael shyly pursued his quest. At 24, Nan, as her family calls her, is a gay, humorous girl who dislikes big social functions, wears flat heels, likes to mimic people. During the war's early years she had studied commercial art in New York, where her mother, Princess Margrethe of Bourbon-Parma and Denmark, clerked in a swank hat shop...
...Presents. When la mêre was at last free of her cooking, she still had plenty to do. She had to help the older sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...