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Word: brasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insulation for non-musical Yardling cars from the sound of brass and the squeal of bagpipes was assured last night by William C. Murphy '46 3L, secretary of the Union, who announced that Holden Chapel will now be available as an afternoon practice room for Freshmen virtuosi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Virtuosi Given Holden Chapel For Practice as Freshmen Rejoice | 10/9/1947 | See Source »

When James Mason knocked over his glass toward the end of "Odd Man Out" and saw the reflection of his enemies shouting at him from the suds, he gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

Cables popping into Washington told about the touchy little incident at Trieste. The top brass got a little excited. Jimmy Forrestal thought it was time to show some of the old hustle. He talked to Clark Clifford at the White House. Off went a radio to the President, who was aboard the Missouri returning from Rio. Forrestal was all set to get the ceremony out of the way in a hurry. From the Missouri, Harry Truman radioed back: go ahead; in view of the international situation, the U.S. should have a Secretary of Defense in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in Motion | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Next day, at 9:45 a.m., Jimmy Forrestal gave an aide an order: "Get the Chief Justice down here at noon. I want to take the oath." It took a lot of scurrying to round up the big Army & Navy brass, four Cabinet members and four Senators; they and Chief Justice Fred Vinson made it by a couple of minutes before noon. Somebody remembered that a Bible would be needed; there wasn't one in Forrestal's office. An aide hurried off and scrounged one. At 12:07 p.m., James Vincent Forrestal, in grey flannel suit and soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in Motion | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Real Me. Paar sometimes proved to be a bigger hit with G.I.s than either of his famous predecessors, mostly because of his almost foolhardy brass-baiting. Once he squelched a noisy, silver-barred heckler by cracking, "Lieutenant, a man with your I.Q. should have a low voice, too." He once addressed a commanding officer as "My dear sir-and you are none of the three-." Or, apologetically: "I suppose I shouldn't talk about officers so much. Some try, a few are sincere, and-what the hell-a couple even know what they're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Out in Left Field | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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