Word: pith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book of the Symphony...
Private Louis Fadel looked out of his foxhole, saw men in khaki shorts, khaki shirts and pith helmets across the river. They looked like British soldiers. A faint voice called: "Don't fire on us. We're friends. We're friends." Fadel's sergeant ordered his men to hold their fire...
...violent stream of artillery and machine-gun fire tore the platoon positions. Said Private Fadel: "We weren't fooled any longer. Our artillery started knocking hell out of the houses across the river, and when men in pith helmets came rushing from the buildings, screaming for mercy, we opened up at them with everything we had. We wouldn't let them go after that trick...
...baton three times as long as Toscanini's. He dresses his men in lustrous Cuban silks and colored lights. His music, tinted to the romantic debutante's taste, features Latin violins rather than brasses. It contains just enough subtle tropical pounding and gourd rattling to give it pith, not enough to ruffle the polite suavity of an expensive hot spot. Four weeks ago Cugat added a mixed chorus of twelve singers to his ensemble, let them breathe discreet wordless harmonies over the throbbing of the band...
...standing in a clump of banyan trees and I didn't recognize him at first. He was wearing a big pith helmet and I hadn't calculated on his having a red beard. He stepped out on the road and said, 'Hi, John,' and I said, 'What say, Al,'-a little more excitedly than we would when we met in the corridors of the TIME & LIFE Building in New York...