Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark, pitch dark, save for one shaft of light boring through the crowded room. This light played on a slim white mast, played on a miniature British Union Jack fluttering slowly aloft. An unseen band struck up God Save the King...
...Hertz abjures all this: "I have had a bitter lesson. I was pitch-forked into the stockmarket; now I am going to pitch myself out of it. ... I have done nothing for the last six months but worry over the stockmarket action of our securities. I had an eye glued to the tape most of the time and missed many a good night's sleep. I am through with this forever. . . . Surplus earnings from now on are go- ing to be ploughed back into the company...
...memorable special session united the churches on the War. In 1920, it met at Cleveland, received Protestant representatives from many countries, pointed to its expanded activities in war and peace, took over the moral authority of the expiring Inter-Church Movement, found itself indisputably an institution of great pitch and moment...
...Thompson, himself, would have been delighted with Louis Leon Hall's interpretation of kindly old Uncle Josh. As Happy Jack, Mr. Nedell chalked up another hit; but he had to work at top pitch to keep up with Olive Blakeney, who, as Rickety Anne, kept things "movin'" on the farm. John Collier, an ex 47 Workshop man, starred as "my boy Reub". The whole company, indeed, from the Stage Manager and Master Mechanic to the Director, Sam Godfrey, himself, were on the boards and they made the audience "glad...
...Walter Johnson (TIME, Sept. 22), aging ace of baseball pitchers. Last week, he and a partner acquired the Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...