Word: brassing
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...going to raise a bit of hell with you. But recalling that you ran Al Capone inthe same space some time ago I saw the fitness of things and congratulate you. After all Germany is in the hands of gangsters right now and Goebbels is their blaring brass. OSCAR LEONARD Ridgefield, Conn. To Subscriber Leonard, praise for able association of ideas...
Undeniably Storm at Daybreak, from a play by Sandor Hunyadi, holds together well and the skill of its actors makes its gaudy situations credible. Boleslavsky's version of the Sarajevo incident is probably Hollywood's high to date - if only for the shot of a brass band saluting the Archduke's arrival, with the cymbalist sadly exalted by the uproar of his own playing...
...once did Mrs. Palmer let down the bars. Managing her Son Honore's campaign for a seat on the City Council, she shrewdly invited 500 members of the 21st Ward Marching Club to the Castle. More at home in West Side brothels and saloons, they arrived behind a brass band. As they filed in Mrs. Palmer, in elaborate evening clothes and a diamond necklace, personally thanked each & every one of them for their political efforts in her son's behalf. Honore Palmer was elected, served two terms...
...Annisquam Canal to miss rough water off Cape Ann and sailed on to Little Harbor, N. H. for the night. There next morning 15-month-old Granddaughter Sara Delano Roosevelt spent a few minutes in the President's arm, expressed delight with the Amberjack II's glittering brass work...
...tuba, grandfather grunt of all brass instruments, weighs about 40 Ib. It has over six yards of tubing. It has to ride in baggage cars. Its master has to have the heart and lungs of an athlete. Yet he is considered a very ordinary fellow compared with the long-haired violinist who sits up front in the orchestra, runs a bow over a set of strings without much physical exertion. As if tubamen did not have a hard enough time already, big William Bell of the Cincinnati Symphony recently invented a still more demanding tuba. He played...