Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that the hard core of Wallace's listeners consisted largely of the vociferous intellectual and professional Left. But around it were clustered thousands of ordinary, bewildered citizens. Some of them sought to hear in Wallace's alternately flat and strident voice the bland tones of Franklin Roosevelt, to recover, in Wallace's fumbling gestures, the touch of a vanished hand. Most of them were vaguely troubled about such timely problems as the Bomb, World War III, Russia, economic collapse. All were groping for answers and willing to listen to anybody who could offer one and Henry...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...effort to induce his long-frigid bull alligators to mate, Curator of Reptiles Robert Snedigar, of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, stooped to trickery. He invited four French horn players to play a few B-flat notes which, he said, sound just like the male alligator's mating burp. Results: none...
Bingo-Bango-Bungo. With his new riches, Billy began to gild the Rose. He acquired a fancy flat, a new wardrobe, a valet, an ornamental but vicious green macaw. In 1924, he got still another source of income: the Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired...
...plan agreed on by the ten called for a vast "machine for working." The shell would consist of two office skyscrapers, 45 and 30 stories high, and two flat meeting halls, widely spaced in a six-block park. Said Wallace Harrison severely: "The world hopes for a symbol of peace; we have given them a workshop for peace...