Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., stands a five-room brick cottage, from which, 27 years ago, crusaded Carrie Nation, Prohibitionist, Reformer, Hatchet-Wielder. Last week Prohibitionists began a movement to preserve this cottage as a Carrie Nation Memorial...
...Manter Hall School's new building which will be located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets have been approved and work will start immediately. The building which has been designed by the firm of Adden and Parker will be four stories high of red brick and will be architecturally in harmony with the colonial style now so prevalent throughout the University. Originally to be only three stories high, it was found that more room was necessary and the fourth floor which has been added to the plans will be given over entirely to dormitory rooms for students...
...together. Class solidarity was the aim when dormitories were lately built along the Charles River, where Harvard freshmen are compelled to abide. But last week President Lowell's work appeared to be partly undone. A Cambridge realty company announced that it would have ready by autumn a luxurious brick structure called "The Varsity," to be run like a hotel, solely for Harvard students. Sophomores and Juniors would presumably be the only classes eligible to live there. There would be collapsible beds, shower baths with every suite, all-night elevators, with porters, servants, maids and bellboys "available at all times...
...Garth, penitent, lies gravely ill; when Matthew Knowle sees the grown son that John Garth sired, the divorcee, Julia, acts "sportingly." Wrench though it is for her, she starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia "a brick" and the book a triumph. Others may say that Author Owen, a polished writer withal, has merely sublimated a personal desire in the tepid crucible of melodrama...
...showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President James G. Harbord of the Radio Corp. of America, John T. Underwood (typewriters), onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co.-had bought Inventor Josepho's device outright, also retaining him as technical adviser and vice president of their...