Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...table, reinforced with iron struts, trembled, creaked, tottered. These idealists, holds Madame Leginska, should be placated. Hence, in her forthcoming opera, there will be two complete casts-one of voiceless actors who will elegantly posture and grimace on the stage, one of unseen singers, who will yodel from a pit, concealed with the instruments of the orchestra. Said she: "Why should a man be exhibited on the stage, throwing out his arms and legs in the. stilted fashion of bygone times just because he can sing? For my opera, I want good actors on the stage good singers...
Saturday's test was perhaps the severest one the Freshmen could have had. Exeter graduates look to see another such team as those on which were Coach Jones of Yale and Coach Casey of Tufts. Against this already famed combination Coach Campbell had to pit practically his second line-up, most of what would normally constitute the first being ont he doctor's list...
...months ago, the Chicago Board of Trade was not only "bearish" on wheat but on its own future. Legislators in Washington and in the State of Illinois vied with each other in proposing new legislation to cripple the "Pit." Farm organizations were calmly planning to take over the grain business in its entirety. Grain traders could make no profits; grain brokers no commissions. Predictions that the world's greatest grain exchange would shortly shut up shop were freely made...
...absorb without visible effort the large amounts of grain dumped on it this spring and summer. Leading Chicago grain brokers declare that any other system of grain marketing would under similar circumstances experience violent breaks in prices, and point to this year's operations of the Pit as conclusive evidence that the Board of Trade markets are efficient and indispensable...
...full of British guilt. After the decent British interval, they marry. A ghostly negroid smell haunts them nightly, requiring Antrim's return to Africa to lay the ghost of Dingaan, a black he sent to find the strayed Rawley. Two skeletons come to light in an abandoned game-pit, clearing Dingaan of a murder he might pardonably have committeed...