Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best gag in this London film is one not entirely in context: a servant lastly striking the brass gong is told "Take it easy. You're not introducing a picture, you know...
...deliberate care, and the conference went off without a hitch. That night the President, in his old single-breasted tuxedo, and Bess, resplendent in black velvet, had the time of their lives at a fund-raising show for the newly revived U.S.O. at Constitution Hall. Onstage, Cabinet officers, military brass, Congressmen and local society bigwigs wisecracked, caterwauled, sawed away on their fiddles, square-danced, and performed a frantic Charleston, complete with short skirts and rolled stockings...
Flanked by the Midwest's most impressive industrial brass, Taft preached his own brand of reluctant internationalism,. Only two or three more U.S. divisions should be sent to Europe, he insisted, "and that would be doing a great deal more for them than they have done for us in Korea." The U.S. would probably have to shoulder at least 50% of the load in any war with Russia, "but I object to getting in so heavily that we find ourselves doing...
...years in the New York fire department, Gerard W. Purcell spent as little time as possible climbing ladders and sliding down brass poles. By becoming financial secretary of the Uniformed Firemen's Association-the A.F.L. union which represents smoke eaters below the rank of lieutenant-he avoided duty, drew an extra $100 a month, and got the use of a shiny red automobile and a chauffeur. He also assumed the job of promoting the annual Firemen's Ball...
General Collins' announcement followed the arrival in Tokyo of a bevy of top Washington brass for secret powwows with Douglas Mac Arthur. Besides Collins, the visitors included Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Walter Bedell Smith, Army Chief of Intelligence Alexander Boiling. Guesses flew thick & fast around the Dai Ichi building, ranging even to the surmise that Nationalist China's armies on Formosa might be brought to bear against Mao Tse-tung's hordes...