Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continually harassed by Prohibition agents in their Manhattan Night Club, the company decides to carry on henceforth on the safe side of the Rio Grande. There Mr. Overman offers to make Mr. Lahr a bull fighter, working him up to a great pitch of excitement by pointing out that all the women will want to make love to him. As to the dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says...
...Parasites have sharp noses, so scientists studied their scent-life, developed synthetic odors to lure them to destruction instead of to meals of human flesh. Incidentally, if an ant met another ant in a pitch-black tunnel its nose would immediately register the other's age, weight, color and sex, and it could act accordingly...
...English-speaking countries are probably at the moment more actively pre-Chinese than any other nations. A few unfortunate incidents in connection with Japanese treatment of their nationals engaged in the struggle would probably arouse feeling in England and America to a fever pitch. It should be the daty of all intelligent men, however favorable they may be to China, to discourage in the interests of world peace such actions as that of the Canadian airmen, which cannot greatly aid the Chinese and which will inevitably bring about serious and unavoidable consequences for all the nations involved...
...usually sits erect and silent, hands folded attentively in his lap. On the rare occasions when he does speak, he asks in advance not to be interrupted and then begins to read: "The Navy is the first line of defense. . . .'' No orator, his voice lacks resonance and pitch. When drawn into rough-&-tumble debate on the Navy, he becomes fussed and nervous...
...things might upset these calculations: a great business revival in 1932; or developments within the industry itself so compelling that present owners might be excited to the pitch of buying new cars instead of hoarding their money or worrying about their banked savings. It was just possible that the public might replace its doddering pieces of locomotion with new models on a grand scale...