Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the part of Gilda in Rigoletto 24 hours before the performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett was more imaginative as her hunchback father, used his strong baritone with an accuracy that seemed almost reproving...
...already in Florida ran as high as 26,000, the increase over last year as high as 200%. By official count trailers were rolling into the State at the rate of 25 per hour. Noted was a phenomenal increase in the number of trailers bearing magazine salesmen and itinerant pitch...
Wonder if their faces match the color of those tired-looking yellow lights? ... A long climbing turn, the propeller set back to low pitch. Down goes the landing gear. The plane lands on the runway as lightly as the wings of the morning...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...
...mice sing is a scientific mystery. Dr. Slye thought Minnie might have a respiratory condition similar to human râles. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse...