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Word: brasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, word crawls in that Red is jumping back in the arena with the sort of band that Mildred Bailey has been trying to get him to assemble for a long time--wood-winds, rhythm section, Red--and no brass...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...down to brass tacks," interrupted Juror Owen P. Hollis, retired naval lieutenant. Hollis himself got down to brass tacks last week with the other jurors and retired to ponder the case. Lepke and Schmukler they found guilty-not guilty Little Schlemiel Kardonick, who wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Schlemiels | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...great brass bell across from the Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged gladly one sundown last fortnight. Through the dim light a ship had just been sighted, and the 200-odd hybrid descendants of H. M. S. Bounty's, mutineers rushed out on Adamstown's headland to strain eyes for their first visitor in over two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Relief | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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