Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman James Michael Curley had scarcely resumed his job as mayor of Boston-after drawing a six to 18 months' prison sentence for mail fraud-before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...
...Cool of the Evening. After court the Imam rides through Sana's surprisingly wide, flowery streets in a horse-drawn coach. As the shadows lengthen in Sana men, women & children gather in the courtyards for the daily ritual and recreation-the chewing of the qat. They squat about brass spittoons (in the better homes) and tear the leaves of Catha edulis fresh from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote...
Last week, as dogs returned from overseas and became available as replacements, the brass hats finally agreed to demobilize Mickey, a German shepherd, from the K-9 Corps. But he has been trained all this time to obey only one person. This week, at Fort Royal, Va., Mickey was being "de-agitated" and reoriented so that the Riedwigs could safely have him home again...
...driving snowstorm this week several hundred blue-clad, brass-buttoned students gathered in the ruins of Meiji University to hold an anti-Communist rally. They had been summoned by the "League of Former Cheer Leaders of the Six Major Universities in Tokyo." Two bored, white-helmeted American MPs watched the proceedings for a minute and sniffed: "Them Commies is at it again...
...Throw brass aside for a while, & try copper. . . . After you have tried copper, then we will try brass again. ... If we succeed, brass stamps will never be used any more in the Christian world"; "Look into that Bierstadt Artotype business, & see what figure a body can buy into at"; "I wish to God I could get a good pen. I'll be damned if I think any are made." . . . "Dear Charley-Look here, have the Am. Pub. Co. swindled me out of only $2,000? I thought it was five"; "I have this idea: to paint the white marble...