Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Activities. Another IIlinoisan (Congressmen from that state may hold five chairmanships), H. H. Velde, a zealous lawyer and ex-FBI man who is expected to pitch into the job with enthusiasm and intelligence. Said he: "We'll just begin when we are no longer hamstrung by an administration of red herrings...
...pinned it down, called José into his office and fired him. Less than an hour later, Diva Eva tottered in, convulsed in sobs and imploring another chance for the young man. "But he doesn't know the first thing about singing," protested Lenzi-"no caliber, no pitch, no nothing." "In all my years in the theater," proclaimed the outraged protectress, "I have never witnessed an attitude like this." "If my voice isn't appreciated here," muttered José, "I'll go elsewhere," and off he went...
...four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...
...Plaster Fell." Happy as he is with his art, Goodman thinks the timpanist's skill is not sufficiently understood. He doubts whether even conductors-since few have ever been timpanists themselves -can thoroughly appreciate the subtleties of a kettledrummer's tone and pitch. But only the deaf can miss it when the percussion comes in wrong...
...duty rather than a pleasure. Now, hearing the cry of "naughty," she started up, looked round the corner of the bush and saw the baby. At once she started forward and, repeating "Naughty! naughty! naughty!" all the way in exactly the nurse's tone but with a rising pitch, caught the baby by the thighs and dragged it to the rug. She then retreated backwards, at first quickly, as from the too-near presence of a strange nurse, but then more and more slowly. Her eyes, fixed on the baby, expressed both desire and regret. The same expression...