Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies of young virgins; Mormon theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...
...which for the past two years has replaced the customary picnic, will this year be supplanted by a gathering of the class at Soldiers Field on the afternoon of Saturday, June 13. For this meeting, which will last from 1.30 to 6 o'clock, the class, led by a brass band, will march to the field, where, all the gates having been locked behind them, a varied program of athletic entertainment will be enacted...
...Nottingham, England (onetime abode of Robber Robin Hood), three race-track bookies, with bags, brass nameplates, betting tablets, visited a golf course, took up a stand at the starter's tent, made an offer: "Five to one on the field." They were ousted...
Across the kitchen stood a gas stove, slowly rusting. In the living room, on the hearth, a set of fire-irons covered with aluminum and bronze paint, rusted slowly. Copper and brass bowls, candlelabras, ashtrays, spent the seven months covering themselves with verdigris. Still the spoon stood in its milk. The milk evaporated. Still the spoon stood. Still it was shiny as a bride's present...
Last week, the experimenters made their discovery (all but the alloy formula) public for the first time. They had, said they, laid Crodon plating on copper, brass, and steel articles with notable success. The surfaces obtained were persistently lustrous, seemed never to need polishing, were almost as cheap to lay on as nickel, had 20 times the life of zinc. They resisted heat as well as electro-corrosion* and acids. They would be found valuable when applied to milled utensils (golf clubs, surgical instruments) that have now to be made of intractable alloys to render them long-wearing and stainless...