Word: brassing
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While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...
...Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles). Wind may moan at 100 cycles, whine as high as 600 cycles. Not even Niagara can go so low as the big bassoon or the brass tuba...
...Brass Ankle is the finest of the few American tragedies of this theatrical season. For while the author pours forth the deepest sympathy and pity for his doomed characters, hedged with a thorn-row of purest ethnological malice, he is also erecting an inevitable dramatic structure...
...Brass Ankle. It takes a Southerner to convey adequately the potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...
...friends the moonshiner and the sheriff and even the hardshell preacher, a drop of Negro blood, no matter how diluted, makes a person a Negro. Vainly the patrician doctor explains that Ruth's father and grandfather were considered -white, that Ruth never knew she was a hybrid, a "brass ankle." But good-natured, inarticulate Larry has nothing to depend on but the cruelty of his neighbors...