Word: pitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper who really ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever pitch and her father, Insurance Tycoon Lord Redesdale, was offered ?5,000 for a statement by one of the big London dailies. "I wouldn't accept ?25,000," cried Lord Redesdale. "Many untrue stories have been circulated. I have even been called a Fascist...
...aloof, publicity-unwise Harold Stanley cracked out the home run of the week for his side, the old-line investment bankers. The pitch that onetime Catcher Stanley (Yale '08) leaned on went sizzling over the head of onetime Third Baseman Leon Henderson (Swarthmore '20), SECommissioner and most articulate anti-banker member of TNEC...