Word: brassing
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...Brass-helmeted firemen, rushing to the rescue, found the Glen Theatre's doors blocked solid with bodies "like a wall of cement bags." Cutting a hole through the roof, smashing windows they formed a living chain to pass out 70 small bodies, many trampled beyond recognition under stout Scotch boots. Inside the theatre, a few calm children were still alive...
...chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...
...Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley are many ancient companies. Some have shared in the general decline of New England industries, but the copper and brass manufacturers thrive above all others, produce 70% of U. S. fabricated brass. In 1922 Anaconda Copper Mining Co. reached into this region, bought American Brass Co. Later Kennecott absorbed Chase Brass & Copper Co. Last week Scovill Manufacturing Co., most venerable of all the Valley's brass companies, figured in a deal, but, absorbing instead of being absorbed, continued an expansion policy in buying A. Schrader's Sons, Inc. of Brooklyn...
...with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a generation in her saloon was for once interrupted, her crew of 14 at last had something to do besides polish brass and blow the siren, as she pointed her blunt prow for a momentous voyage...
...brilliance of Grandson Maurice centres in his clothes, which are as the sun in splendor. At the recent wedding of his English cousin Anthony he startled smartchart editors by appearing in mustard yellow trousers and a bright blue tailcoat with brass buttons. Baron Maurice's collection of pajamas is the envy of many, and his beach robes are one of the established sights of Deauville. He has been divorced, "for mental cruelty" his reputatation with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London...