Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianos struck the keynote simply from a darkened theatre pit one afternoon last week. On a stage bare of properties the current dance season began in Manhattan, not with the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe of glamorous traditions and virtuoso performers, not with any of the U. S. moderns struggling to express themselves by gymnastic abstractions, but with performances designed by Kurt Jooss, a 35-year-old German whose ballets, scorning any set technique, tell stories...
...humor Shakespeare most certainly intended his Prince to have runs throughout this entire production. At times the wit is biting, at times it is gentle, and again there is a touch of rich whole-hearted merry-making. It seems almost as though Mr. Howard had determined to avoid the pit-fall John Gielgud's humorless characterization of Hamlet has apparently fallen into in New York...
What happy individual will have the satisfaction of knowing, when he consults the financial statement of the Eliot House Committee for the year 1935, that the two bucks he thought had long ago vanished into a bottomless pit have reappeared into the happy guise of a pleasant and unexpected contribution to the Elephants' budget...
...Island's central plain, is dotted with ghoulish hazards placed there by the late Walter J. Travis, the club's most famed member and the best golfer in the U. S. at the turn of the Century. Most famed hazard designed by Golfer Travis is a deep pit. the size of a giant's grave, beside the 18th green. Into that pit legend says that Golfer Travis never sent a ball until the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship in 1908. Then it cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City...
...great corn states of Iowa and Illinois, the temperature rose to 115° and in the grain pit corn kept pace, next day mounting a full 4? to $1.16 a bu. This put democratic corn ahead of aristocratic wheat ($1.14 a bushel) for the first time in six years. Next day September-delivery corn rose 3!^ to $1.igf, a price unequaled since the great days when War-starved Europe bought all the U. S. grain it could get. and cash corn sold...