Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President tipped over the Republicans for the first time in 24 years. The train stopped. A huge station crowd roared expectantly. As always, the President let them wait a few minutes. At last the door opened; the crowd bellowed. Out came a grinning porter to polish the brass-work. Another minute, and the President made a carefully timed appearance, got off a little speech timed for the afternoon papers: a quotation of Lincoln's definition of liberty (in effect: liberty for the sheep is not liberty for the shepherd, nor for the wolf...
...most U. S. voters will vote either the straight Republican or the straight Democratic ticket. But five other parties have Presidential candidates in the field. The piccolos of these minorities were drowned out by the brass bands of the two major political parties...
...brassy dignity, an odd-looking contraption stood on the stage of Chicago's Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick...
...mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer...
...Beecher and Wheelwright are poets of vastly different stripes but of the same cloth. Each is a product, and a proponent, of the great, unfinished American Rebellion. Each is trying to make the living god jibe with brass tacks...