Word: brassing
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...course of the first few songs and choruses, H. R. H. concluded that the efforts of the 'band' would be assisted by a little more noise, so he added a couple of brass trays to his own musical equipment, beating upon them with his feet whilst he strummed his ukelele and sang the words of the song...
...which, unfortunately, is about one-tenth as readable. In it, the state of wedlock has been treated as a musical theme is treated to turn it into a symphony. Count Keyserling is the conductor. To the woodwinds of psychoanalysis, the percussives of aristocracy, the bass viols of biology, the brass of anthropology, the muted strings of art and mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Frobenius, Jakob Wassermann, C. G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Beatrice Hinkle. Some of the titles on their scores...
...political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution. Now only Tammany Hall and lower Manhattan indulge in it heavily...
...climax of the program will be the Beethoven "Eroica Symphony." In his production last Saturday night, Mr. Koussevitzky multiplied the wood winds into fours and strengthened the brass against the weight of the string choir. This rendered it, in the opinion of many of those who heard it, the most vivid performance of "The Eroica" that Boston has heard in many years...
...evening the crowd had come trickling in. You showed your ticket at a brass gate in the stucco wall of the Sesqui-Centennial, a mile from the stadium. Between the Centennial Gate and the Stadium long narrow buses with red lights, electric motors and canvas roofs plied to and fro, silent as lizards. They were crowded. Diplomats, politicians, millionaires, sailors, Negroes, sportsmen went by. Vincent Richards, the tennis player, and his wife, and a raincoat. A huge black preacherman in a woman's straw hat. Mortimer Schiff. Mayor Walker...