Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath her brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...fired. Office gossip had it that he was sacrificed because of an article on the U.S. power shortage (Our Lights Are Going Out) that brought complaints from General Electric and power companies. Fontaine had thought that Cottier's should have some of its old crusading spirit. The brass favored the editorial line of least resistance (Collier's safe-&-sane editorials are still the spare-time work, but not always the echo, of the New York Daily News's Reuben Maury...
...latest collection of recollections about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Items from the first installment (now running in Collier's):1) in 1939 Hopkins seriously considered himself a likely candidate for President and thought F.D.R. did, too; 2) Winston Churchill, admiring Hopkins' ability to get conferences down to brass tacks, called him "Lord Root of the Matter...
...Winner. Even for tough old Sewell Avery this was too much. He hastily called a special meeting of directors to try to prevent the walkout of his brass. After a five-hour session with the board, Avery got the insurgents to withdraw their resignations and go back to work. Their terms: a change in the company's bylaws to give President Norton (and not Chairman Avery) "general executive authority . . . over the entire business and affairs of the corporation," subject only to the board's control. Crowed one executive: "It's the beginning of the end for Sewell...
Last week the patient did as well as could be expected. The preoperative prayers were said with muted strings; the ether was given with dissonance; the incision and sewing up came with a clatter of busy brass and woodwinds. The non-medical found Composer Parris' music not quite surgically clean: it had echoes of everything from Grieg to Gershwin. But nobody denied that it was good...