Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final break between King Carol and his violent-tempered brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor...
...Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into the 364- year-old crypt below. While brown-faced Boy Scouts scurried after the injured, helped the unharmed scramble from the pit and calmed the other worshipers in the hot Cathedral, Archbishop Martínez quickly descended from his pulpit, bestowed blessings on the ten worst hurt. The installation then continued as planned...
...tycoon. We tried this on a time but frankly found it wanting. First, the Gulf Stream was rougher than the Channel or the Devil's Hole, and the ships must be small to get into Bermuda's harbor. When the sea starts bristling, it does something to the pit of our stomach. Second, we baked our back on the beach the first day, cooked it so fine you could have sold it to the Union for roast beef au jus. Finally, the golf and tennis and the white sails and blue water and salt spray flying had such an allure...
...persecuted Jews are equally determined to preserve it. Rabbi Loew is dead but his successor, Rabbi Jacob, knows the formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons. Jacob's wife then whispers the magic words, scratches some Hebrew letters on the Golem's forehead and tells him to get started. The rampage in this case does not last long. After bending some iron bars, brushing a few walls...
Elektra is a difficult opera in which to make a debut. It is doubly hard on the concert stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...