Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about par for a blustery course. Robert Newton, as the law officer, and Emlyn Williams, a pirate, can do little more to support a disjointed script sagging mainly from the over-productive imagination of authoress Daphne du Maurier. Both the screen play and the acting proceed at a hurricane pitch, which makes Jamaica Inn seem considerably older than its tender fifteen years...
...Representative Frank C. Osmers Jr. as "my old friend Francis Osborne," and starting to call Cliff Case a "candidate for the presidency of the United . . ."-only served to verify that Joe Martin was the same genuine G.O.P. article who had been campaigning for more than four decades. And his pitch for Case was straight and hard. Said he: "You can't make a better contribution to Eisenhower, to the country, or to the Republican Party than to elect Cliff Case to the Senate this fall." Breathed Case: "Thank God for Joe Martin." On that point, at least, New Jersey...
...Revolutionary portraits. The resulting portrait commissions were just enough to support his greatest joy-a bustling, boisterous family. Of his ten children to reach maturity, most dabbled in art, two became professional painters: Raphaelle and Rembrandt. Raphaelle was by far the most talented, brought still-life painting to a pitch seldom equaled before or since, and died of drink...
Behind their closed doors, the Democrats had a disunity problem of their own. Stevenson & Co. wanted to pitch the campaign on an anti-Eisenhower theme. But many of the politicians who will be stumping the congressional districts are firmly against that policy. They are convinced that Ike is still overwhelmingly popular with the U.S. voter. Said one Democratic pro: "We ought to pretend that 1952 never happened, that there is no such thing as Eisenhower...
...love and shows it. To the facts presented in Malcolm Johnson's 1949 Pulitzer Prizewinning stories on the New York waterfront (in the late New York Sun), Novelist Budd Schulberg (The Disenchanted) added the results of his own investigations. The product strikes the raucous but curiously subtle pitch of the great port as surely as an octet of harmonizing tugboats...