Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name takes the place of a huge neon sign, plays the dowager who bestows her repressed maternal affection on the strangler, and is repaid in trade. She gets her only opportunity for expression in the last act, and shows her years of experience well in building up to a pitch of fear that is broken by the murderer's dramatic entrance, and sends the balcony audience into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass when she removes her horn-rimmed glasses--and you know she will--is a well-bred Pegeen Mike to the predatory "playboy," suffering only the occupational...
...doop, Helen Morgan's teary-voiced moaning or Bonnie Baker's baby talk are past. The style,now-practiced also by Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee -is to sing straight, and let the band do the fancy work. Her detractors say Jo Stafford sings like a pitch pipe...
...Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally got the fourth ball...
...contact. At night the train guards were sleepy. The prisoners went into the lava-tory of the third-class coach, closed the door, forced the window and climbed out. "At intervals telegraph poles whisked past our noses with a blowing noise, like seals coming up to breathe on a pitch-dark night ... I jumped ... I found myself doing neck rolls down a granite-chip embankment. I came to rest in a little gully. . . . It was stifling, suffocating, wonderful to be free...
...elected president of Bendix, controlled by G.M. By taking tough radar and radio contracts that other companies did not want, he pushed Bendix's annual gross up from $40,000,000 to nearly $1 billion. He still found time to play golf, fly his own plane, and pitch hay on his ten-acre farm near Detroit. With Ernie Breech calling signals, the auto industry may see plenty of power plays, with a little razzle-dazzle on the side...