Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution." As he projected himself back into the days when first he heard those words, the Vagabond remembered the noisy campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...
Riddled by injuries, the Freshman nine will journey to Riverside field this afternoon to met the Boston University Freshman. Coach Samborski will call on Jack Schwede, who set down Tome School 15-5 on the Spring trip, to pitch. Mel Gordon will replace the injured Hartstone and Dago Avergun will probably start in place of Lovett, also on the sick list. The game is called for 3:30 o'clock...
...CONCERT PITCH-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town...
...first few weeks Hugo Black sat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test...
Seven hundred and eighty-third deputy inspector Murphy J. Murphy, of the Post Office Department delivered another telling blow when he banned Lampy from the mails. "Such smut!" he stormed. "Imagine publishing a parody of 'Breezy Stories'! Wit pitch-as, too. Geez, wot nudes, wot frivolity. It stinks. Enough is enough...