Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage of brick-bats, was repulsed with the loss of several more prisoners. Still unqualified, the student forces dispatched skirmish parties to create a diversion. This was done effectively by the turning in of a false fire alarm...
...Passed a resolution to preserve the brick structure in Washington lately used as headquarters of the National Women's Party which served as the U. S. Capitol in 1814-18 after the British burned Washington...
CAMBRIC TEA - Rebecca Lowrie - Harpers ($2.00). Author Lowrie has re- membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...
...true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been...
...banking colleague of Otto Hermann Kahn and Paul Drennan Cravath, holder of decorations from the French, Italian and Rumanian Governments for rehabilitation work after the War. Last week he died, of angina pectoris, suddenly at his Manhattan office, just two years to the day after he pried the first brick from the old Mills building on whose Broad Street site the Equitable's new 42-story building now stands...