Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around the villages of Starnberg and Oberwiensfeld just outside Munich. The men were a motley crew, some attired in civilian clothes, some in their old Reichswehr (Defence of the Realm) uniforms. But all were determined compatriots in the cause of the Vaterland. The men were equipped with revolvers and brass knuckles. The artillery was present only in imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully equipped except for the minnenwerfers. The men were supplied with slings for the latest one-man machine guns, but the weapons themselves were not visible. An air of reality was given to the sham fight...
When A. H. Woods presented his Light Wines and Beer in Chicago, he reconstructed a bar, brass rail and all, in the lobby of the theatre...
...Timpkins Coal Company, the Libby-Owen Glass Company, the Toledo Ship Building Company, and the Goodrich Tire Company will be inspected. From Cleveland to Boston the itinerary includes the White Motor Company at Cleveland, the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, the Dutchess Bleachery at Wappingers Falls, the American Brass Company and the Winchester Arms Company, both at Bridgeport...
...writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth, and she is aunt to the children of William Rose Benet, the poet. Her life has been a varied one, and it shows in her keen understanding of women's hearts and minds, and in her unfailing observation of detail. About...
Upton Sinclair, brass-check novelist: " I was nominated for Congress by the Labor Party to represent the Tenth California District...