Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague, a fireman on duty at the Pardubitz municipal theatre was knocked to the floor by the descending iron safety curtain which kept on coming as he lay on the floor, hit his neck, decapitated him, rolled his head into the orchestra pit...
...advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested 23 spectators and one Gus Kauffman, proprietor of the Inn, summoned a justice of the peace who held court in the Inn, fined each of the spectators $10, Proprietor...
Cockfighting is conducted in "mains" of seven or more individual fights. Bettors wager on either the fights or the main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail...
...main strains: Old English, Oriental and Modern English, a combination of Old English and Oriental. There are more than 250 variations of the three strains, with names like Crazy Snakes, Kansas Sluggers, Gordon Games, Mortgage Lifters, Meal Tickets. Roughhouse Blues. Cockers also belong to three main types. In such pits as "The Sag" in Chicago, disreputable cockers hold ill-conducted contests between second-rate birds. A larger class of cockers are poultry breeders, farmers, country folk who raise gamefowl for profit, pit them at well-advertised meets such as the Orlando tournament in Florida. The third class of cockers...
...Herr Professor who wrote the music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor, soldier in a Viennese regiment, sole support in dark post-War days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics...