Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Lady Astor, as determinedly dry as the late "Pussyfoot" Johnson, auctioned off some gin to raise funds for a memorial to a friend. She peddled the treacherous stuff at $60 a bottle. But her conscience was presumably at ease, since she began her pitch with a rousing temperance lecture...
...walls and ceilings. He told a meeting of hearing specialists at the center last week that the hearing ability of the men tested varied widely even when the same tester used the same words to the same man, and did his best to keep his voice at the same pitch...
...night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear...
Teacher Roy Fisher, 22, just out of the University of South Carolina, was like no teacher Bunk had ever heard of. In his green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
...canvas in an hour apiece; yet many of them had the kind of intensity that persists in the mind's eye for a lifetime. John's view of Poet Dylan Thomas, with the poet's chubby face and curly hair, hits a high pitch of adolescent sensuality, freshness and innocence; it might well outlast Thomas' own vivid verse...