Word: brassing
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Slugged and beaten with blackjacks, brass knuckles, gun-butts and baseball bats were a housewife, a Kansas City Star newshawk, a candidate for the City Council, a chauffeur, a policeman, and five other persons...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...
...Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early...
Charles B. Bohn (Bohn Aluminum & Brass...
...lights inside when the doors are opened. And then as they rush to board the engines they put into use another one of the many novel features of the building. These are no ordinary poles the firemen slide down to reach the first floor. Built of shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight is put on the pole and close again when he lets go. The shutters cover up the hole through which the man must slide and prevent the usual draft which rushes...