Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped to the bottom of her feet in order to reach the pedals. If conversions were slow in starting, she had to work herself up to an intense emotional pitch to lead...
...recent flight of Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat...
...fire" or "fiery cross" as sometimes rendered in English and U. S. newspapers. The declared aim of the Croix de Feu is to unite their members in disinterested patriotism, clear and free from any and all political factions. When, two years ago, public scandal in France reached a pitch that aroused general indignation and brought to light the utter corruption of the party which has been in power for the past 60 years, the Croix de Feu paraded the streets of Paris as a warning that men who had exposed their lives to defend their country were prepared...
...factories, railways and even on the Dictator's favorite collective farms in recent weeks desperate Russian workers have slain Stakhanovites. Pride & Sabotage. Six months ago the most violent of Dictator Stalin's henchmen, big-nosed, hot-eyed Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze. demanded that Russian workmen pitch in and really learn to use the machine tools their Government was buying from the Capitalistic world at drastic sacrifices of food and other Russian goods...
...believe that there had been any rehearsals. He presented young singers who were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter at Virginia Pemberton who as Micaela...