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...Pullman (Wash.) after J. L. Blalock had showed off before an auction crowd by stepping up to a bull and knocking him silly with a right to the jaw, police charged Blalock with wearing brass knuckles under his glove...
...York American said that he said: "We got along swell for a year. Then Mae was offered $350 a week and I said 'Go on up,' and I went back to my single act. We were divorced later." Mae West: "The nerve of a brass monkey! . . . Nerts! ... Let him show a marriage license or divorce papers...
...dream of the terrible things which might have happened to me if I had appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with which to "purr" or kick the shins of the nonconformist. Even a neat patch was regarded with suspicion, its purpose being adequately covered by the cast-off coat of an older and bigger brother...
Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
Revere Copper 6 Brass...