Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older time, might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they go to the local...
...Rhine wine, with a fraulein on either side, swaying to the music. It first turned up at the Cologne Carnival in 1935, called Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein. Too brassy for smart dance orchestras (which have always stuck more to stickier tunes like Lili Marleen), village orchestras and brass bands blared it out, with a strong pair of lungs on the trumpet and a heavy hand on the drum. By the time the Germans invaded Poland, even the barrel organs had given...
...Book. Last year Metro-Goldwyn Mayer offered Waugh $150,000 for the film rights to Brideshead. It was a situation worthy of a Waugh novel. It is explained, according to Waugh, by the fact that none of the top studio brass had ever read the book. When Waugh demanded "full Molotov veto rights" over the script, the deal fell through...
Legmen had to face competition from their bosses. The Louisville Courier-Journal's Publisher Mark Ethridge doubled in brass as bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...
...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...