Word: brassing
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There are eight bedrooms, four baths, a big circular living room, a study. Oak logs faced with birch bark make the outer walls. Inside are oriental rugs, French wicker furniture, maple piano (inlaid with gold), Italian oak panelling, brass bedsteads...
...Talk is often brass...
...progress. The first ones opened down the back like the puffy blouses worn by the women who rode in them. Then the later Packards, with the lined hood that still distinguishes them, appeared; gigantic limousines, touring cars like towers, and snorting red racers. The windshields were rimmed with brass; the men who sat bolt upright behind them wore alpaca dustcoats...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
...innocuous Mr. Rodemich with flow of good humor and bursting jazz of brass was on hand; in fact, he introduced one of those silent tramps as "possibly the most imitative of pantomime artists". There were views of mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely...