Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was indeed humble English earthiness in the 19th Century's John Constable, who spent most of his life in the country, kept his eyes fixed on the beautiful. Wrote Critic Ruskin scornfully: "Constable perceives . . . that grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady; about as much as . . . might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent faun and a skylark." But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter...
Both tallies in the Leverett-Lowell battle came from capitalizing on each other's miscues. The Bellboys drew first blood into in the third period when Roger Wales took advantage of a Bunny pass into the flat from its own 25 yard line, neatly intercepted on the 30, and galloped unmolested to the goal line...
...Strauss 15 years ago. But Manhattan critics, busy passing out bravos all around for the City Opera's Ariadne, were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around looking like the Statue of Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann, who darted through her coloratura notes with birdlike accuracy...
Harvard policy on passes in the flat, such as that thrown to Ernie Ransome for the first Nassau touchdown, is to allow the catch to be made, and then have the covering end hit the receiver. But Ransome cluded Wally Flynn at the line of scrimmage, and then hipped his way past at least four other Harvard tacklers on his 52-yard journey...
...dark, drab Chicago flat where he was born and brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner...