Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore a fool's cap crowned with tiny bells, and he strummed, of all things, a lyre--probably brass, but it looked gold. And he said...
...women, boys and girls of the cast-the folks of River City, Iowa ("pop. 2,212"), in the summer of 1912. Marching two by two they go, first to one side, then to the other, and then back again. They pantomime the players of a big brass band -trombones sliding, cornets flashing, cymbals smashing, piccolos chirping, wood winds whining, drumheads cracking. The music bugles in smashing thunderclaps...
...begin to slam their hands together in rhythm to the march. The music wells, and the actors turn, dip, twist and prance. The applause pounds on in martial time as, a-tatatatat, a-tatatatat, the music pours up from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum...
...grossing $70,000 a week, of which $19,000 is clean profit. More than 20 different Music Man recordings are selling like pinwheels on the third of July. The marching band arrangement of Seventy-Six Trombones is already on the music racks of more than 6,000 brass bands across the U.S. And the ultimate recognition-from the business world-is already at the stage door: toy manufacturers want to make Music Man toys; clothing firms want to manufacture Music Man caps, shirts and sweaters...
...Italian village his father left 50 years ago to migrate to the U.S. After viewing the site of the old family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with the splendor came word of Monteforte Irpino's terrible needs: the pastor asked Carmine to sponsor a sawmill in the factoryless village; the police chief wanted money for a sewage system. Smiling through it all, Democrat De Sapio promised to give...