Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrifty, earthy Alsace parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...
...brass bands of India blared lustily last week as Moslem League President Mohammed Ali Jinnah toured the great Province of Punjab. A high British official riding Jinnah's train was pleased to note that, at station after station, the musicians played God Save the King. When he mentioned his pleasure to an Indian friend, the friend remarked: "Don't attach any political importance to that. They don't know how to play anything else...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
Then, in a peroration calculated to bring tears to the eyes of a brass monkey, the Mayor pointed to his 30 years of serving Jersey City "faithfully and honorably," pleaded with his citizens "to continue the confidence in me and my associates," promised that fate would vindicate his administration "because our cause is just and our courts are honest...
...keeps them chuckling the morning after. The acting throughout the picture is superb with Ginger playing her three-faced part without dropping a stitch and the pseudo-sophisticated cadets, just Sue-Sue's age, throw a line at Ginger which would shame anything around the Square for pure brass and military strategy. Benchley's all too short appearance packs into a few shots what some comedians needs a lifetime to get across...