Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandoned monosyllabic titles," the author of Salt, Brass and Bread told me. "What," I then asked, "is to be the title of your next novel?" "Pig Iron," he replied-and the joke seemed to be on me. Charles Norris says that he can produce only one novel every two years; that he is 75,000 words towards the finish of this new study of the struggle between materialism and the spirit, and that means only half done. While in Italy, he worked every day, from early morning until late afternoon. Mr. Norris does not write with the flow...
...example, it would be interesting to know how large an excavation could be filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...
...episode was caused by a too hasty resumption of the dividend a year ago, when copper momentarily advanced to 17½?, as well as to the assumption by the company of bond interest and sinking fund requirements of $14,000,000 as a result of its acquisition of American Brass. Except for its newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah...
...apparently like "the wondrous horse of brass" it needed but the turning of some hidden key to release his congealed wings and send him ramping "into the uttermost parts of the earth." And now, like Oden's ravens he brings back tidings, not from all corners of the globe perhaps, but far more remarkable for a Cambridge foaled beast, from twelve states outside of New England! And the genius, his flowing robes girl up about his loins, his wreath becomingly arranged, his lyre attuned to the typewriter--raises the ante. The prize for the best word to describe...
...store where she obtained the great portion of her "White House trousseau." At 5 p. m. the President pressed a button, lighting the great National Christmas tree rising 60 feet high in the oval south of the White House. A choir from the Epiphany Episcopal Church and a brass quartet of the Marine Band gave a concert. At nine in the evening the choir and an assembled multitude sang Christmas carols on the north lawn. At midnight a group of Negro voices renewed the carolling about the great Christmas tree...