Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
Manchuria's mightiest industrial enterprise is the Japanese-built Fushun Combine-a nexus of aluminum, shale oil, steel and power plants based on the world's biggest open-pit coal mine. The Russians stripped Fushun of much of its heavy machinery, let its coal production fall from 10,000 tons to 1,000 tons a day. Last month their army pulled out, leaving behind 20-odd Soviet mine and railroad officials with orders to operate the Combine jointly with the Chinese. But the technicians sent in by Chungking had other ideas. TIME Correspondent Richard Lauterbach cabled this story...
...Saturday afternoon, May 18th, will see Lampy's best college tries pit their etceteras against the and so forths of six of Billy Rose's top showgirls, presumably hot off the Diamond Horseshoe. Seven Boston scribes, named by the New York showman, will rate the dozen girls, who will appear both in evening gowns and bathing suits...
From balcony to pit the audience, which had come to see a revival of Kaufman & Ferber's Stage Door, seethed with indignation. Actress Ilena Sylva was actually chomping a real banana-scarcest of all delicacies in Britain...
...president of the National Union of Mineworkers, had set the tone for last week's debate: "How can you run an industry efficiently, if every miner loathes his work because of its owners; if every miner's wife swears 'her boy will not go down the pit'; if in every miner's home the pit is looked upon as an accursed thing...