Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were many less feverish items than The Pit, including Grosz's old (1927) and well-known portrait of The Poet Afax Hermann-Neisse, so meticulously painted that the skull beneath the hunchbacked mtellectual's tight, bald scalp shows through...
Self-Portrait. The most ambitious painting on exhibit, The Pit, is Grosz's favorite, because it embraces in one canvas "the story of my life...
...squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago's hostesses were nominated, and even Mammy Yokum, of Dogpatch, received six votes. The old Chicago wheat-pit spirit raised its head. Laughed International Harvester Director Chauncey McCormick: "I've been offering a dollar apiece for votes for my wife, but I heard Ed Cudahy is offering $1.25, so I'm upping my offer...
When Coach Bob Pickett calls tomorrow's match "our real test," he's thinking of the six post-game meets which pit the Crimson against the strongest teams in the East. A win over Columbia could go a long way toward an undefeated season...
Intellectually, Director Anatole Litvak (Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number) has behaved something like a schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...