Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican top brass hit hard at the Truman tactics. Said South Dakota's Senator Karl E. Mundt: "Never has a retiring President campaigned in this manner. He is making it difficult for any decent Americans to vote Democratic in 1952." Then, in words addressed especially to Catholics and Jews, Mundt added: "Despite the fact that over a hundred leading national organizations, including the National Catholic Welfare Council, endorsed the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mr. Truman blandly cries it is 'anti-Catholic.' The man who smashed the greatest enemy of the Jews in modern times, Adolf Hitler...
...Promoter (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a sprightly spoof that gives Alec (The Man in the White Suit) Guinness a role ideally suited to his deadpan comedy talents-that of a droll, eccentric fellow who achieves success not through industry or intelligence but through sheer brass. As Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin, Guinness is a washerwoman's son who gets ahead in the grimy town of Bursley. In grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list...
...spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...
Belts can be decorated and dressed up or down at the whim of the inventive manufacturer. Brass fittings are still the most popular, and range from the simple buckle-and-eyelet on the classic leather belt to the most elaborate of emblems. Nailheads on the strict elastic cinch are the most straight-forward decorative shape. Heraldic emblems are still popular, and vary in size from an inch diameter to giant encrustations of spurious coats-of-arms. A gleaming creation that is not strictly a cinch at all but a development of the Mexican concha-style is the belt made entirely...
...humble grosgrain to velvet and fur--with an uncompromising elastic backing which allows the wearer to breathe a little while it nips her waistline to its smallest possible circumference. "Cinch" will probably become a generic term, however, for any belt playing a prominent role in costuming, including the classic brass-buckled leather belt as well as the shaped belt which tucks in at the waistline and spreads out to cover part of the rib cage above and emphasize the hips below...