Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wensley, Westinghouse electric engineer, had an invitation to entertain the National Masonic League Level Club in Manhattan last week with his televox system, wherein tones of certain pitch affect electrified diaphragms, which cause electromagnets to go this way & that, which make machinery go & stop...
...sending the wife to jail for five years and planning to have the sentence quickly cut down. Such proceedings call for no small amount of insight and ingenuity to make them credible. A good deal has been supplied, but not enough. The play works itself up to a pitch of considerable excitement and then subsides, fizzling feebly. Robert Ames, who sometimes acts in the movies, availed himself ably of the opportunities of the leading part...
...Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch where box-office plenty is direct sequel to the announcement of special Wagner matinees...
...Ages" in a Tennessee Mountain Church. They confined their attentions to the voice which Grace Moore, 27, used to sing Mimi in the special performance of La Boheme which served for her debut. They stamped it as fresh, smooth and appealing, but small, often insecure, often unfaithful to pitch. Her acting, utterly uninspired, was satisfactory by reason of its simplicity...
...chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...