Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissioner Knox sent a vivid, formal report on his dog-pit to the League's committee on the Saar Plebiscite. Sitting in Geneva, the three committee members, Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Argentina's José M. Cantilo, could scarcely believe what they read. Last week they sent for Mr. Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction...
...piece of showmanship it smacks of the bull-ring or the bear-pit. One can imagine the ferocious sadism of the crowd as they follow the intellectual downfall of the student under examination before the rapid-fire of this depraved department. Indeed, one might believe that this extraordinary innovation is an attempt on the part of the new regime to bolster the shrinking violets among the faculty. Such petty inferiority complexes must be replaced with true professorial pomposity: therefore exercises in exhibitionism, platform methods, lecture room ballyhoo...
...orchestra and Conductor Artur Bodanzky made the evening. Instead of the usual 80 players there were 104 in the pit. No music is more difficult. The strings in places are divided into 20 parts. 'Cellos must behave like violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...
...bushmaster ranges from southern Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which...
...Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play about a farm would be incomplete-begin to hurt the Martin farm, Chris and Walt have ugly words...