Word: brassing
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...Lately he eyed with annoyance the shabby bootblack, one Giuseppe Carnozzi, who shines the Whalen shoes twice daily at police headquarters. Whalen commands were issued. Carnozzi dimensions were taken. Last week a new bootblack shined the Whalen shoes?still named Giuseppe Carnozzi but now clad in blue livery with brass buttons, with the title BOOTBLACK embroidered on cap, on breast pocket...
...broad, chortling voice, in a scarlet dress, in her latest Manhattan night club, sang, last week, famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. She had just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce...
...midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...
...passionate defense of "our team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing...
...euphony of current advertisements, water pipe manufacturers have been trumpeting, bugling, tooting and piping the merits of various pipe materials. Brassmen have clarioned that brass pipes last a lifetime, do not rust. Ironmen have said the same for iron-pipes...