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...roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among...
...student palaces so dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage...
Germans and Frenchmen were prime movers in filling a hall with the music manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...
...entereth a tavern, and putteth his foot upon the rail of brass; there be those who say, 'Behold a wine-bibber...
Chewing tobacco, ten-cent store vegetable knives and brass wire were the items carried by P. T. L. Putnam '25 in his recent trip to Dutch New Guinea; and intelligent use of this stock in trade enabled him to bring back to the Peabody Museum an interesting and valuable, collection of articles used by the natives...