Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sculptor John Gregory of Manhattan launched upon a vision of what architects and allied artists would accomplish: "The nation will be engrossed in art. Streets will lose their present character and become canyons of brass and color. They will be designed in units rather than as collections of buildings...
Germans and Frenchmen were prime movers in filling a hall with the music manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...
...entereth a tavern, and putteth his foot upon the rail of brass; there be those who say, 'Behold a wine-bibber...
...throng of anxious parents and a brass police band milled around on a dock in Hoboken last week. In floated the stubby Dutch liner Ryndam, her rails festooned with grins and sunburn...
...brass-lunged American Mercury, one T. N. Gillespie, laid out all specialized pedagogy for a thorough flogging. He flogged Deans of Education as representing "the very bottom of American academic ability," the Teachers College at Columbia University as an "up and doing cultural behemoth" with a stock of 37 "pedagogical staples...