Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoke. The conductor barred the steam because it hissed too loud. Pleaded Agnini : "But, Maestro, there will be a scandal if we don't have the steam. The audience is expecting it." Flashed Reiner: "There will be another scandal if there is steam. The conductor will leave the pit." No steam was used, except less turbulent steam from the back of the stage...
Stressed in the steelmasters' announcements was the point that they had arrived at the new pay scales by negotiation with their company unions. In the Homestead, Pa. plant of Carnegie-Illinois, biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, the company union promptly accepted the raise and a grimy group of pit men lined up for news photographers, singing Happy Days Are Here Again (see cut, p. 26). But most of the Carnegie-Illinois sheet & tinplate mill workers' representatives held out for a 15% raise. At Carnegie-Illinois' Duquesne plant, company union men balked at the cost-of-living scale...
...sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in. 'Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit. . . that you are held over in the hand of God. . . You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...
...problem of finding someone to pit against Joe is solved when Noah, the gigantic, bearded father of one of Sadie's three informal children, takes umbrage at the usurper, comes down the mountain with his fowling piece. After a careful rehearsal of grunts, groans, screams and floor-poundings, the two are shown wrestling in the arena. Pep talk before the bout: "Never forget, boys, that a good wrestler is always a good performer...
Elsa Kahl was there, wife of Fritz Cohen who now writes or arranges most of the music, plays one of the pianos in the pit...