Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamond cache, she tames a lion with her bare hands to prove to the Lion Men that she is their goddess. Her headdress slips, revealing her mortality, and she is put up for sacrifice. Saved, she sneaks into the treasure cove by a back entrance, tumbles into a torture pit and is showered with a deadly...
...They had never driven, but William had seen his mother do it, so he climbed behind the wheel and started off. Some 48 hours later, after stealing two more cars (one a policeman's with a .38-calibre revolver inside), after sleeping one night in a sand pit, one night in a dog kennel, they stopped at last at Echo Lake-a small, boarded-up summer resort where frame cottages stood cold and bleak in the New Jersey woods. They broke a window in one, hid until dark, ransacked others that night. Now they were well fixed. They found...
...Gunners," by Benjamin McCartney, is a sympathetic psychological study of what waiting in an anti-aircraft gun-pit does to men's nerves. Interest is heightened by the fact that the men are Germans and the enemy are English--an aspect of the war of nerves little talked of now. If some of the reactions seem a little stock and some of the psychology a little doubtful, nonetheless a spirit of tension is preserved throughout...
...Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...
...into that pit, McArthur had come a long way. As a piano prodigy in Denver, he made money for music lessons by selling magazines on street corners, picking berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...