Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad, chortling voice, in a scarlet dress, in her latest Manhattan night club, sang, last week, famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. She had just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce...
...midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried a small ivory-handled dirk, emblem of the fact that he was neither an enlisted man nor yet an officer privileged to wear a sword. As British midshipmen still do, he always car ried when on duty a bright brass telescope, which, uncollapsed, was three-quarters as tall as himself...
...occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet unrestrainedly. Next door there is a brass-railed Bowery...
Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...
Thus daily did Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who last year rejected a Methodist Bishopric (TIME, June 4), conduct noonday services in the vaudeville theatre. Every afternoon, the harlequinades and brass buffoonery of the vaudeville followed. Last week, Dancer Gilda Gray was the star...