Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wolfe Street with its back against the newly constructed business block containing the Eliot lunch. Westmorly Court will be on its left, and across De Wolfe Street, in front of it, will be situated St. Paul's Catholic Church. According to present plans it will be made of brick in old Colonial style, and will by 100 feet-long by 65 feet wide. It will be adorned on the exterior by colonial pillars and doors. The windows will correspond exactly with the windows of colonial houses and inns. The height of the building is yet undetermined, but it is practically...
...went back to Onawa, Iowa, to work in his father's candy store and ice cream parlor. The family had come from Denmark in the '90s and this confectionery business meant their prosperity. Christian dished out bulk ice cream with chocolate flavor; sold packages of brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that he could make the confection. He invented the name Eskimo...
With such entertainment to close the day, one looks about for academic pastime for the morning and afternoon. At 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall, Professor Conant will speak to Fine Arts 3b on "Roman Temples". Augustus found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and much of his building activity was devoted to carving shrines to the gods. Contrasted with the pure spirituality of the Greek temples, the religious structures seem the product of a more decadent age, but nevertheless, they offer to the eye and mind of a sympathetic student a subject worthy of some little attention...
...another part of the city, at decaying Lafayette Square, other laborers fell upon the red brick house that John Hay built to be near his friend Henry Adams, in a golden day of cultured U. S. statesmanship. The Hay and Adams houses (twins) were sold last summer to make way for "Carlton Chambers" apartment (TIME, Sept...
...Most popular U. S. comic strip character, widely syndicated creation of Cartoonist George Herriman. At his partner-in-comedy, Krazy Kat, he throws hundreds of black ink bricks annually, his aim being uncanny accuracy. As a brick hits Krazy Kat, Ignatz often cries, "Phooey...