Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command, and in the composition of these he has mingled gold . . . others he has made of silver to be auxiliaries; others again who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron. . . . If the son of a gold or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward the child because he has to descend in the scale . . . just as there may be sons...
Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Milhaud: Suite Franchise (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Light-hearted folk tunes from five French provinces which homesick Exile Milhaud first put together during the war for Edwin Franko Goldman's brass band. Performance: good...
...editorial titled, inappropriately enough, "Brass Tacks," there appears the following sentence: "A prominent Oklahoma coach recently told the press that the members of his squad were making more money than he was." I have followed the sports pages quite closely, and have seen no approximation of such a statement. Knowing Oklahoma's football, I am sure no such declaration has been made. It is obvious that one J.H.S., who assumed responsibility for the article, should devote more time to uncovering facts and less to reading the Saturday Evening Post. F. C. Donahoe...
...chorus of U.S. business leaders last week sounded rather like these Gertrude Steinfuls. They flitted portentously around a subject of great import-a national bust. But they too never got down to brass tacks...