Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...
...McCormick) schemes to sell him to the highest bidder. Under these frenzied circumstances, the delirious hero shouts his own conversion and the story's master theme: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass . . . and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing...
Murmurs of protest increased hourly as the distillery repeated the renowned six-da cheer, but substituted "crofts" for the crucial "Fight!" Driven desperate by repetition of the blurb, one brass artist began a substitute commercial featuring the theme...
...form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk, an armchair, an ottoman, a lamp and a radio. For good measure the board of Education tossed in a little brass schoolbell, which Miss Lizzie rang to end the banquet. It was also almost, not quite, the end to her 50 years of teaching: she plans to retire...
...Brass Check. While Washington society resembles that of St. Louis, San Francisco and Chicago in many of its skin-deep manifestations, there are differences. Washington's crowded beach is washed by the tide of politics, and every important official gets a social position to wear like a brass locker check. As a result the capital's reigning dowagers cannot really rule, but only sit above the high-water mark...