Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...
Hagen vs. Walker. "WORLD'S UNOFFICIAL CROWN TO BE CONTESTED," blared the headlines. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Cyril Walker, 1924 U. S. Open Champion, was to play 72 holes with sleek Walter Hagen, 1924 British Open Champion. Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form. Into that pit plunged Cyril Walker and thus did sleek Wal- ter become unofficial golf champion of the world. Hagen, at the end, was "17 and 15". Of 57 holes played, Walker won but 7, tied...
...physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...
Throughout the whole rasps the strains of a jazz orchestra. Much of the dialog is written in the jumpy idiom of jazz. The several scenes are mostly bizarre paintings on flat drops. Exits and entrances are made from the orchestra pit. Even the stage-door alley beside the auditorium is employed for off-stage movements of the noisy...
Next day, he went to the Vatican, called on Pope Pius. For more than an hour, in private audience the two reminisced about the days when they met in Warsaw, the Pontiff as Nuncio, Paderewski as Premier of Poland, both facing a situation black as the pit, from Pole to Pole...