Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
Junior Vice President. "In theory Vassily got his orders from Nikita Khrushchev,* governor of the Ukrainian Republic ... in practice, however, he preferred to take his troubles to his guardian angel among the heavy brass-a handsome young man named I. S. Senin, vice chairman, of the Council and one of Boss Khrushchev's fair-haired boys...
Lipsett expects the Normandie to yield about 40,000 tons of steel scrap (worth some $15 a ton), which will just about cover scrapping costs. Any profit will depend upon how much brass, copper, lead, etc. (worth up to $240 a ton) he can salvage. Said company President Morris Lipsett: "It's just like a crap game
...combination of biography and backstage musical, the picture demonstrates conclusively that box-office silk can be made out of dog-eared formulas. It is loud, costly ($2½ million), overlong, occasionally trite, lushly sentimental and pretty as new brass. More important than anything else, it is uncommonly entertaining...
...following night will feature a choral concert performed by the Collegiate Choralo of New York, with Robert Shaw as conductor. Paul Hindemith has been secured to write a composition for chorus and brass instruments, with offerings at the same time by Asron Copland and Francisco Malipiere...