Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell, who initiated the planning of the celebration, the parade featured more than 20 bands, including the Hot Tamale Brass Band and the MIT Marching Band...
...Charleston, South Carolina, this week, many of the 600 or so freshmen--otherwise known as knobs--entering the Citadel hope to be ready for the rigors of Hell Week and beyond. Local alumni representatives will have taught them what is the best kind of sandpaper to keep their uniform brass tarnish free, the most effective bug repellent (knobs are not permitted to scratch in public), the most reliable alarm clocks and the most durable T shirts. They will also be mentally prepared for the ritual hazing, designed to remind cadets that the military has no room for free spirits...
...defunct Pi Eta final club occupied the building before Grendel's opened in 1970, and the brass mailslot at the entrance still bears the name of the club, Kuelzer said...
...grade we didn't have weekly tasks anymore. I could no longer serve as door holder, so I found a similar calling--as elevator operator. I got the idea on a visit to a London hotel over the summer. I don't know what constituted its tremendous appeal--the brass buttons, double breasted suit, or just the image of spending all day riding the elevator and getting to talk to many different kinds of people...
...parties, cosmetic dentists and a young woman actually called Memory. One Buckhead mall--Lenox Square--advertises itself on a list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass and a concierge to direct you to Nail Elite and Hair Artisans, the Civilized Traveller and the Silver Spoon Cafe. It must be said, however, that the same Buckhead hotel that enforces a dress code (jackets are "preferred" for men, even at breakfast) is the place where my $16 Payless shoes...