Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...know. Your family's place is near the pit where I used to work...
...audience enters and the theatre fills with the sweet confusion of an orchestra tuning up, there are no musicians in the pit. As the curtains part, a huge symphony orchestra appears hazily, on the screen. Before it steps a thin, grinning, bald-headed man. He introduces himself as Deems Taylor, welcomes the audience, on behalf of Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, to "an entirely new form of entertainment." When he finishes, Leopold Stokowski himself, his back to the audience, steps into the picture, raises his arms, and the great orchestra swirls into Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue...
James M. Montgomery '43, New York N.Y.; Robert K. Mooney '42, Waterford. Conn.; Benjamin Myers '41, Dorchester. Mass.; Jack Orloff '41, Newark. N.J.; Ray P. Perry '43, Kirkwood, Mo.; Jess R. Pit is '41, Marietta, Ohio...
...blond, wispy young man at a photographic recording machine. With a dainty flourish, the blond young man tripped the shutter of his machine, then handed the card to a pair of young women, who removed the numbered paper, pasted it on a sheet. In the vast auditorium pit, scores of newsmen and photographers paid practically no attention while the same rigmarole was repeated over & over. Finally, Brigadier General Hershey & team could handle 14 cards and numbers a minute...
Against this talented aggregation of Papooses, Chief Boston plans to pit a Crimson team which has finally stated clicking and which is extremely desirous of avenging last year's 23-14 scalping...