Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arms & the Men. The Tribune is a tightly run command, but it is no one-man show. McCormick's army of talent is extraordinarily well paid, headed by high-powered brass...
...when the meetings got down to the brass tacks of Professor Chafee's draft of an agenda, Expert Lomakin did not go along. On the nub of press freedom-elimination of peacetime censorship-Consul Lomakin was adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...
...crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...historians may not like him, Lanny has a public. In Europe-and in Russia (where Sinclair is considered a major U.S. literary figure, along with William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell) the Lanny Budd volumes are becoming almost as well known as Author Sinclair's The Jungle or The Brass Check. Several of the Lanny series have already been published in ten foreign countries, including Brazil, Hungary, the U.S.S.R...
...gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when a baby cried, the General went over and pinched its cheek. "I think it was sick," said Hodgey...