Word: brassing
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...office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
...foyer are brass rails and stiff shirted attendants to keep the waiting people in place. There is no standing in line two or three blocks up a windy street far from the box-office. One waits for seats just as he waits for a train in the Grand Central Station...
Excitement confusing sense impressions, making recognizable the smell of the "Star Spangled Banner" as played on a brass band, the noises of two-for-a-quarter cigars, of D'jer Kiss, of this morning's breakfast, the taste of anticipation. Bowlegged Honus Wagner and spry Tyrus Cobb, survivors of a Pittsburgh-Detroit World Series 16 years ago, pushed together seats through the press section; a white team (Pittsburg), a grey team (Washington), which had been warming up along the edges of a field earnestly green, looked up at a box wherein Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, stood with...
...upper story work of the lady with the green millinery, which finds the sayings of Shaw monotonous as are any sayings too often repeated, turns to new fields those of football. What charm have a few "Charming People" when Mr. Erlanger promises a hundred histrionic collegians and a brass band? For six scenes he will lead his audience through the campus comics of a university day. Before their eyes cheerleaders and cheered will battle for Craven and Rice University. Crafty Mr. Craven, refreshing Mr. Rice. Touchdown, Broadway...
...undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...