Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirt-floored shack on Half Moon Mountain, in New York's rugged little Ramapos, Gilbert Pitt lived for 81 years. He spent a big chunk of that time warding off social contacts and modern conveniences...
That meant considerable vigilance, for the Ramapos lie a mere 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. On clear days, from the top of neighboring Jackie Jones Mountain, Gil Pitt could see the skyscrapers: Half Moon itself was only 55 minutes from Broadway...
...Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...
...proud of his family. The Pitts had been mountain men in the Ramapos since Revolutionary War days, and they claimed to be direct descendants of famed William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. "This Lord Pitt," they liked to boast, "he was lord of all England." The Pitts and the Starrs and the Conklins were the aristocrats of the hills...
Having served under him in the U.S. Navy I am willing to bet that the other 500 men of the former crew of the U.S.S. Pitt will vouch that they have never known of any one person who used adjectives more dramatically or profusely than Lieut. Commander Goodrich, no matter whether he was instructing, explaining, praising or more especially reprimanding with super-adjectival expletives...