Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is in my home today a melodeon of solid rosewood, purchased for my mother in 1860. It has had several new bellows, and minor repairs, and is in fine repair today. It is keyed to what used to be called "concert pitch," which, I understand is obsolete today, all instruments being tuned very much lower. My mother was offered $1,000 for it about 1887. It has a five octave, seven key keyboard, which is longer than the usual melodeon, which had, I believe, only five and a half octaves, or possibly only five...
Sentiment having been worked up to the desired pitch, the logical thing for the Sophomores to do is to investigate the financial and social state of the dances of which they are envious. The Jubilee, heralded by nebulous publicity throughout the first year and coming at the time when a class has attained its acme as an entity, is usually a financial success in spite of its nondescript social category. Like it, the Senior Spread comes at an advantageous time, and largely in its capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make...
...Homme." She knew that if her man got another chance, he would go straight. "No matter what he is," she sang, "I am his . . ." and the song, sung well enough to be effective even if it had not had any particular significance, moved her hearers to an extraordinary pitch of sentiment because they knew that her husband, Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein, was serving sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Now, in her first picture, she sings "My Man" again and also her other famous songs, "I'm an Indian" and "Second Hand Rose"; she recites "Mrs. Cohen...
...baseball nine a baseball ten. Mr. Heydler would give every manager the option of naming a tenth man on his team who would bat in place of the pitcher when ever the rotation got to the bottom of the batting order. The pitcher would continue to pitch, always sitting on the bench between innings, until his usefulness on the mound was exhausted...
...action takes place during the time of the great Armada when hostile feeling against the Spaniards was at its highest pitch in England. To fit with this setting there is the beautiful and noble heroine the brawny, brave, and confident hero, and last but not least the urbanely smooth Spanish Count who enters the story by virtue of a shipwreck on English shores. This wily son of Spain abducts the beautiful heroine and carries her to his native land. Through all sorts of adversity she is followed by her faithful lover, and in the end, as may well be expected...