Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the bonded debt had jumped from $12,000,000 to $200,000,000, that Louisiana had the highest auto license tax in the U. S. (Sam Jones promise: a flat $3 tax), had 27 new taxes, including a general 1% sales tax that filled Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country. General was the clamor for a clean-up of the judicial system. Said Sam Jones: 1) dictatorial laws must be abolished; 2) courts must be placed above reproach; 3) Louisiana schools must be revitalized. "Louisiana has gone back into...
Said Manager Ethridge: "We are trying to reverse the trend which has been running since personal journalism faded. In recent years, when a man got to be good enough as a reporter to get forty dollars a week, some brass hat stuck him on a desk and deprived the paper of the thing for which it had trained him. Too many good writing men have been stifled by titles. We want to get writing men back to writing, and see what happens...
Inspecting Canadian troops at Aldershot, War Minister Oliver Stanley left his gas mask in his motor, as did the Canadians' commander, Major General Andrew George Lotto McNaughton, and other brass hats. When the gas alarm sounded during a demonstration of trench digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working...
...bandom at the present time, decided that the arrangement would fit his heavy and intricate style, and persuaded Lewis Music Company (for certain pecuniary considerations) to give him sole broadcasting rights. He rearranged it, slowing it down, and made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks, he played it from the Cafe Rouge at the Pennsylvania in New York. Result was tremendous national popularity--so much so that Victor had to call a special recording session for the band and ship it out on a special release schedule...
Interesting to note the difference between the various records. As usual, Glenn Miller's is very cleverly arranged with his typical trick of using his brass section under volume, but with eight part harmony. Only trouble is that the very size and pretentiousness of the arrangement kills it. While his rhythm section is fair, it isn't up to the job of pushing a seventeen piece white band so that it "kicks" the way a good colored band does...