Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timetable for only the first week of play is now ready for print. It goes: Kirkland vs. Dunster and Leverett vs. Winthrop on Wednesday, October 13; Dudley vs. Adams and Lowell vs. Eliot on Thursday, October 14. The rest of the schedule is lost among the H.A.A. brass and their respective secretaries but will be out in the open this week...
...back to this brass ring--it was bought in Italy. Now in case you aren't up on your baseball statistics, it's a fact that nine out of ten times the hidden ball play has worked, it has been pulled by the Italians. Freat actors, the Italians. Great actors, those Italians, And this ring reminds me of an extra great actor Harold Wit '29 and I met in Rome...
...back to the gold rings--after a few minutes, they got dull. We polished them for half-an-hour, and they regained their shiny luster, but the one thing the customs officer didn't question me about in New York was my declaration of one brass ring, value two dollars...
...these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost. I was a foreign woman-and I traveled with the High Brass. Therefore, I was a Bad Woman ... Nothing I could say or do would change this attitude. I was classified, labeled and filed...
...Everleigh Club flourished from 1900 to 1911 in a 50-room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...