Word: brassing
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...power that Mayor Thompson now holds over Mr. Lowden is proportionate to the power of the Mississippi Flood over the farmlands of its basin, plus the power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey, his valet, seemed to admire its neat construction; he kept Byron's shaving apparatus neatly tucked away in a hidden compartment which could be opened only by pulling a certain brass bolt...
John Hardyng's chronicle, bound in the original calf with the original brass clasps of 1590, is the first issue of the first edition. The elaborate bookplate on the fly-leaf bears the escutcheon of "Philip Lord Hardwicke, Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester...
...Bunting Brass & Bronze...
...expect a brass advertisement to sell steel and iron pipe? That would be brass on my part...