Word: brassing
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...night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a ruddy-faced squire come up to London for perhaps the fifth or sixth time in his life...
...important as giving political accounts an equal chance with those of the criminal is the need of freeing news from editorial bias. Amidst the cross purposes of advertisers, parties and causes, this requirement is an ideal doubtful of realization. Although unwarrantedly bitter, Upton Sinclair of "Brass Check" fame has shown beyond possibility of a libel charge that the opinion of all papers save a chosen few are definitely dominated by the influences of corporation and business...
Resplendent with its shining brass trimmings, and still capable of doing a good 15 miles per hour on a down grade, one of the first horseless carriages of Cambridge, a 1909 model Maxwell has returned after over a decade of honorable retirement to the scenes of its former glory...
...graduate of the University of Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box, like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla and the solar plexus. On goes a current stepped to very high frequency. Patients "have reported no sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation...
There was, there is a certain satisfaction in connecting things. So when the winds of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, whirled snow and cold air and an occasional cinder about the house with the room with the brass bed with the literary occupant, the literary occupant read two books, connected enough to satisfy the greatest stickler for good connections. For both the books concerned nephews, one, the glass relative of the Gentle Cardinal Peter Bon; the other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying...