Word: brass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony of the band is the one factor that prevents a regimental mutiny and how long they can keep down the surly private is hard to tell. What we want is heat...
...lost upon them. The rooms in Massachusetts served as barracks until March, 1776, when the troops were withdrawn from Cambridge. A committee was appointed soon afterward by the general court to estimate the damages, which remained to be made good." These damages consisted mainly in the disappearance of many brass locks, which were probably needed for other more important purposes...
...less than 3,000 persons must take part in the pageant to make it a success, and a brass band of at least 70 pieces will be secured...
...membership of the Orchestra usually numbers between 40 and 50 men, including most of the instruments needed for symphonic work, but there is urgent need for more brass and wood-wind...
...daily routine starting with reveille at 5 o'clock and dish washing until 7.30, including half an hour of polishing brass work, five hours of physical, gun, fire and loading drills, as well as scrubbing clothes, and torpedo, defense, searchlight and other drills...