Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, another Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different aliases, and prepared to give him a brick-and-bludgeon reception...
...comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...
...London looking for bets and getting them. At 7 o'clock on a cloudy evening below Gales Ferry the two boats went away. Harvard was in front for the first 50 yards and never after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved steadily, powerfully, on a river turned into a theatre. Movie men cranking on the stone piers of the bridge photographed the coxswain throwing up his hands to show his crew that they had crossed the line. Ten lengths behind, the heavy Harvard crew...
...Pardon my rough and tumble entrance to your party. But a brick through the window arouses quicker interest than a dollar's worth of pansies laid lovingly on the threshold...
...Harvard to be planned by one architect in these years of material development? Harvard is so architecturally heterogeneous that any attempt to make it all Georgian in style is unnecessary and sometimes unfortunate. The architectural style of Massachusetts Hall is not naturally adapted to such large blocks of brick and mortar as Widener Library, designed by Trumbauer fifteen years ago, or the new chemical laboratory...