Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since early in the war Nazi leaders have spared no effort to keep that morale high. U-boat crews have been treated like the supermen of the super race. When a sub comes in from a long cruise it is met at its base by a brass band, cheering dockworkers, flower-throwing civilians and a quayside loaded with the handsomest girls obtainable, primed to give their all for the returning heroes...
Cleveland's Jack & Heintz (Jahco) last week put their circus touch on lobbying. Bill Jack, Jahco's brass-lunged president, invited 525 Senators and Representatives to dine at his expense in Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. He wanted to: 1) explain Jahco's renegotiation troubles (TIME, Jan. 24); 2) make a proposition...
Londoners could not quite bring themselves to think of the new raids as a blessing, but taxi drivers, charwomen and red-tabbed brass hats of the War Office mused in much the same words: "Maybe we were getting careless. These raids are getting us good and mad just in time for the Second Front...
...Emanuel Leffler, 73, nefarious inventor, longtime Broadway showman; of coronary sclerosis; in Miami, Fla. At ten Leffler got a job passing out programs at Tony Pastor's, one rainy day picked up $4 in tips minding people's umbrellas, the next day invested the money in numbered brass tags. The result: hat-checking...
...Brass Hats. The Anzio press corps fought an extraordinarily hot engagement (punctuated by a bombing alert) against General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, who accused the correspondents of "blowing hot and cold" in their reports of the month-long beachhead battle. The doughty commander of Allied armies in Italy charged the newsmen with "alarming the people" by switching from overoptimism to overpessimism, was "very disappointed that you should put out such rot." Day before, as a penalty for "such rot," his staff had cut the correspondents' use of the beachhead's radio to Naples, by which the Allied press...