Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rarely if ever had a President taken the oath of office with public expectation of great achievements whipped to a higher pitch. President Hoover had been extolled as the Superman whose engineering genius would reform and elevate the Art of Government. Advertised for Washington was a New Era. With the Press trumpeting welcomes and high hope, with a Cabinet substantial though not exceptional, President Hoover took his new job with a rush of enthusiasm. He stifled a Mexican revolution with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from...
...Drought Relief fight in Congress reached such a pitch last week that a Senator stalked over into the House looking for a fight with a Representative. Down the centre aisle, shoulders hunched, hands deep in pockets (his usual carriage, but now more sour than ever) stalked Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of hungry Arkansas. At a table sat baggy-faced Representative Louis C. Cramton, lame duck of Michigan, busy with papers. Beside him was big Representative Schafer of Wisconsin. Mr. Schafer poked Mr. Kramdens ribs, tried to call his attention to the Senatorial intruder. Mr. Cramton got busier than ever with...
With a difficult game against Dartmouth scheduled for the coming Saturday. February 7, and a two-week quietus during the midyear examinations behind it, the University basketball team is making three days of concentrated effort to regain the pitch of efficiency which marked its last game, with M. I. T., on Monday, January...
What Is Insurgency?" Insurgency is as old as Congress. Its prime characteristic is rebellion against party discipline. Occasionally it reaches such a pitch that it sheers off into a third party (Roosevelt in 1912; La Follette in 1924"). Normally it works within the party organization. Insurgent Republicans expect their party to advance them to important posts but feel no obligation to render party support in return. Exercise of free judgment is their great tenet...
...connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung, not just peeped?these won her cheers and a dozen or more curtain calls...