Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Society of Independent Artists: "We dislike having to pit our puny strength against the Rockefeller Real Estate Company but we shall have...
...great powers on a Mass, struggling to keep the mighty contents within the liturgical framework. He was too deaf to know the noise he made at home, too deaf to hear any of his music at the first Vienna performance in 1824. Nevertheless he insisted on standing in the pit and beating time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York...
...WENT TO PIT COLLEGE-Lauren Gilfillan-Viking ($2.50). Diminutive Lauren Gilfillan graduated from Smith College in 1931 and, like many of her generation, could find no job. So she decided to go to a Pennsylvania mining town, write a book about it. The result of her adventures is an absorbingly interesting record, written with such artful candor that it reads like a first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables...
...being in cahoots with her. At the end she had to tell Johnny that he could not go with her. He took it like a man. " 'I get you.' A pause. 'I can take it.' " Sick, dirty, undernourished, but glad to be going, she left "Pit College...
...concurring, she got a job in a corset factory, was discharged for inefficiency at the end of a week. She thinks her visit to "Avelonia" "a pretty good adventure. But the most terrific experience I have ever been through was writing about it." Her first book, I Went to Pit College is the March choice of the Literary Guild...