Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...import and export business in Nicaragua, and I have noticed in TIME the shortage that there is in the United States of rubber, scrap steel, aluminum, brass, copper, etc. There are hundreds of commodities that we are unable to import from your country, such as steel bars, tires, copper wire...
...from the Government and there is quite a lot of red tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation for the material required for brass fittings." I offered to ship brass and copper scrap, but they answered that they could not use it as they would have to go through such red tape that it would take years before being through...
...bill would mean "religious suicide for Mississippi"; that "the downfall of every nation so far has been due to two things-first, desecration of the Holy Sabbath, and second, loss of the virtue of its womanhood." Members spat rich brown streams of tobacco juice at the shiny brass spittoons. Senator Hull warmed up. He had been summoned, he said, "to come at once" to the home of a friend 80 miles away. He "raced" there in his automobile to discover that his friend's daughter-"a beautiful young woman"-had confessed to losing her virtue. "And where...
Lord Linlithgow's own estates had prepared him to occupy the Viceroy's staggering marble "lodge"-which has six miles of corridors-with casual ease. His innate conservatism was softened by sociability and humor-his London town house once bore the deeply felt legend in brass "This Is Not the Russian Embassy" (which was next door). The Viceroy was at first greatly admired in New Delhi for his hard work, conciliatory attitude, patient fact finding, agricultural knowledge. When the Congress party's provincial ministers balked at taking office under the 1935 Act, because of the extraordinary powers...
Mayor Raul García Menocal y Seva of Havana was welcomed to Washington, but nobody could find the customary key-to-the-city to give to him. Discovery: the stock of keys (brass) had been exhausted, and priorities had delayed replacements...