Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EARC ok'd it and the W.R.A. went to work. They enlisted the U.S. Navy to help them arrange the proceedings, taking the Naval Air Station at Anaoostia as the boathouse, storing the shells in the hangars. The Navy arranged for all the proceedings and provided its top brass, Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson, in his yacht, the Sequola, to present the Rowe Cup and give the Regatta official sanction...
...commanding officer of the WAG, Mrs. Hobby tolerated no Jim Crow in training the first class of WAC officers. In fact it was actually through this laudable policy that she becomes the first of the "top brass" to integrate by order...
Battleground Ahead. With this kind of bounce and zest, the top brass looks forward to the fast-approaching day of a buyers' market in cars. They think that will be their chance to make the Ford car once more the No. i seller, knock out Chevrolet. At present, G.M. and Ford are selling all the Chevvys and Fords they can make. Since G.M. has greater productive capacity, it can turn out more Chevvys than Ford can make Fords...
...Chicago Tribune in 1861: "Our forces at Bird's Point now consist of the following regiments . . . [the] Eleventh Illinois . . . Twelfth Illinois . . . Eighteenth Illinois . . . also 17 pieces of artillery, consisting of six 24-pound siege guns, three 24-pound howitzers, two 12-pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote what amounted to an invitation for a Confederate attack: he described a concentration of 15,000 troops, "waiting for the remainder of the army to join them." During the Peninsular Campaign, Harper's Weekly printed detailed sketches...
...called, among other things, a Communist (in 1855), a madman and a eunuch. Slonimsky himself believes that, for pure vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who wrote in 1871 of "the diabolical din of this pigheaded man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music-Wagner...