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Word: brasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper story work of the lady with the green millinery, which finds the sayings of Shaw monotonous as are any sayings too often repeated, turns to new fields those of football. What charm have a few "Charming People" when Mr. Erlanger promises a hundred histrionic collegians and a brass band? For six scenes he will lead his audience through the campus comics of a university day. Before their eyes cheerleaders and cheered will battle for Craven and Rice University. Crafty Mr. Craven, refreshing Mr. Rice. Touchdown, Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOUCHDOWN, BROADWAY!" | 10/16/1925 | See Source »

...undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HEAVEN WITH YALE! | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...city agreed with Addie?regular hours, meals with green vegetables, sliding down the brass fireman's-pole and running upstairs to do it again. As years went by and she still came and perched on his bed in her nightie to kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fippanys* | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went to Havana every winter like Mr. Snare could get around a course at all; but the more upstanding of medalists?they who had staunch freckles on the backs of their hands, and little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seniors | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Tired pianists who have practiced all day until their fingers are fagots of bruised nerves and the sound of their instrument echoes as hollowly to their ears as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, dream, when asleep, of the perfect piano. They seat themselves before a suave and sable instrument that is pliant to their will as none that mortal hands have ever fingered; it speaks for them with a mighty organ voice; notes, at the command of their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Invention | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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