Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host of skaters will take the ice at New Haven today as three Harvard hockey teams pit themselves against the best Yale can offer...
Last week in the March American Mercury Henry Louis Mencken flayed Franklin Roosevelt, with a blistering summary of the New Deal which closed with the statement: "There was a time when the Republicans were scouring the country for a behemoth to pit against him. Now they begin to grasp the fact that if they can beat him at all, which seems most likely, they can beat him with a Chinaman, or even a Republican...
...harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo gave the Russians a fearful pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under way, coming all the long way round the Cape of Good Hope. Nervous about Japanese torpedo-boats before they passed
...last disastrous experience in 1930 when he ended a two-week festival owing stagehands and orchestramen some $7,000. The amount he had to meet last week was only $1,500. By union regulations musicians are entitled to be paid in cash before they go into the pit. Last week's performance seemed doomed when no one would vouch for the $1,500 check even though Mrs. Albion insisted "this is one of the loveliest performances ever given and we want you to see it." Some one suddenly remembered that there was a folding portable organ hidden away...
...Walküre the orchestra under Conductor Artur Bodanzky gave one of the best performances that has come from the Metropolitan pit in many a season. The strings were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from...