Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything approaching representative, if last year's group is an example of the Committee's handiwork. The Budapest "representatives" of the U. S. had this to say of their country last August: "...The greater part of American Youth have no jobs. America is run by economic royalists and military brass hats...To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall St. men can answer is 'Join the Army...'" What the Committee is most interested in this year is illustrated by requests in its blurb for information on: "Southern Schools...Dismissal of three professors at the University...
When Willie Comes Marching Home. A sprightly farce that ribs Army brass and a hero-loving public; with Dan Dailey (TIME, March...
Chewing on a cold cigar and occasionally spitting dangerously into his brass gaboon, he stood at his Senate desk, bellowing with annoyance, dealing out forensic cuffs and insults while his horn-rimmed glasses slipped lower & lower on his nose...
...funeral, recounts Historian Barzun, "the pair of mourning-coach steeds, black and tame as Paris undertakers themselves, suddenly seized the bit in their teeth, plowed through the brass band in front of them, and brought Berlioz alone within the gates...
When Willie Comes Marching Home. A sprightly farce that ribs Army brass and a hero-loving public; with Dan Dailey (TIME, March...