Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the middle of last February, the big brass at the Yale Athletic Association must have decided that maybe Bill Bingham was right. So they gave up trying to lure Lon Little from the peace and security of Morningside Heights with the aid of a bale of cash, and started looking for a bright young...
...months later he was back in Paris and playing wingback for an army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
...sort of dress rehearsal for the impending visit of Britain's George VI and Elizabeth, F.D.R. gave Tacho and Salvadorita the full treatment. The President (with all his Cabinet, congressional leaders and top brass) met them at Washington's Union Station, dined them, put them up at the White House...
Cruel Dissonants. First the audience was jolted upright by an ugly, brutal blast of brass. Under it, whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds, like secret, anxious conversations. The survivor began his tale, in the tense half-spoken, half-sung style called Sprechstimme. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant. The chorus swelled to one terrible crescendo. Then, in less than ten minutes from the first blast, it was all over. While his audience was still thinking it over, Conductor Kurt Frederick played it through again, to give it another chance. This time, the audience seemed...
Mitzi's prone, aluminum Lovers (TIME, May 5, 1947) was almost embarrassingly specific, but her bronze Eve (see cut) showed the highly literary kind of generalization Mitzi was after. Eve looked a little pregnant; the applelike belly was inlaid with a brass circle and what looked like veins. "I wanted a feeling of built-in guilt," said Mitzi...