Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasts had a stone to throw at the architects. The only complaint came from Ralph, Mohr's half-dachshund. In the Emmons house, with its two-story living-room windows, the second floor is a mezzanine, and the only staircase is a ship's ladder with polished brass railings. Ralph could climb up with a great deal of wheezing. But he could never get down again by himself, until once in desperation he dived like a seal off the top rung. Now he lives across the bay in Oakland, in a house where there are no ship...
...have it from a cabin boy whose brother polishes brass on Rainier's yacht that the prince is a truly regular man. Why just last week he was followed by reporters when they saw a blonde in his serene highness' car. "Leave me alone. I want to be left in peace," he cried. Now isn't that just so regular and manly...
...spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications and background...
...plain-speaking Senator from Tennessee has confounded most of the political experts and given a painful kick in the shins to the DemocraticFarmer-Labor brass of Minnesota. Certainly a number of Republicans crossed over party lines for this occasion and probably most of these wanderers voted for Kefauver...
...Three years in Paris opened his eyes to impressionism, and by 1889, when he came home to apply its viewpoint to the American scene, Americans were almost ready to accept the results. Plump, pink and tweedy, Hassam painted pictures that were pretty yet robust, like a small brass band playing in the park...