Word: brassing
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...physician must not expect as much money as a man of corresponding ability who is engaged in business. He must not expect as much leisure. He must realize he is an emergency man. Like the fireman, he must come sliding down the brass pole at the first sound of alarm...
...literary sensations then went, The Jungle (1905) flaying Chicago's stockyards, The Metropolis (1908) flaying Manhattan and The Brass Check (1919) flaying journalism, were equivalent to the later temblors of Main Street and Babbitt. And it may be to the ian, constitutes himself the scourger of Vulgarity. Upton Sinclair, Marxian pedant, is the novelistnemesis of Capitalism...
Modern efficiency has given substantial blackboards, trim cabinets with brass locks, skylights and shrewd ventilating systems to the classrooms of U. S. public schools. But the "art objects" on the walls have changed little since the days of slates and coal stoves. Pupils are still schooled among lithographs of George Washington crossing the Delaware, paintings of cows and baskets of fruit, cheap etchings of Longfellow and Lincoln...
...Yale into the A. E. F., out of the A. E. F. into steel mills and a brass factory, out of the fires to the Atlantic Monthly staff is the abrupt sequence of Author Walker's career. He wrote reminiscences under the title Steel. Then he became literary editor of the Independent and wrote this, his first novel...
Passengers boarding the Century always tread plush. But next week the red platform carpets will be new, as red and plush as money can buy. Brass polish will be copiously consumed this week on observation-car railings, and, no doubt, even upon the service-shiny buttons of John Joseph Kennedy...