Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Pit. Yi agrees to provide her permanently with separate maintenance in her own house?an unprecedented concession from a Manchu. electrifying to all Chinese husbands. Deeply shocked, one conservative Peiping paper branded "this renegade concubine" as "no better than what is called in the United States 'gold-digger...
Breaths were bated in the South last week. In Atlanta, the Imps of Hell had dug a Pit. Mayor James Lee Key was an Imp. In Nashville, Dr. Edwin Frederick Vogelpohl, member of the church council of the First Lutheran Church, was not only an Imp but the first president of the Imps of Hell...
...crime and members of the audience are implicated. One of the magicians uses black magic and sleight-of-hand to find the real culprit. When The Spider was produced on the Manhattan stage four years ago, a fair proportion of the characters in it were seated in the pit of the theatre in which it was produced; this method of staging mystery plays became so popular that for a few months the lobbies of Manhattan's theatres were infested with actors carrying concealed weapons and even the balconies resembled shooting galleries. In the cinema, obviously, no such presentation...
What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...
First-night audiences had already been bowled over by the sheer bulk of the production. In the pit was Conductor Cesare Sodero (formerly with La Scala, now opera conductor of NBC) surrounded by an orchestra of 90 men, most of them from the Cleveland Orchestra. Three operators regulated a $25,000 amplification system which used horns six ft. long.* Anne Roselle was Aïda. Paul Althouse, Rhadames, Pasquale Amato was Amonasro. Critics credited them with "signal ability . . . abundant breadth and vigor . . . impressive operatic authority...