Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., Sept. 23 Mrs. Mary Sweazey, proud possessor of a three story brick building on High Street in this city, is literally sitting athwart the $12,000,000 expansion program of Yale University. Directly in the path of the growth of Yale University is her house, and nothing short of a court order seems likely to evict...
...years past he had endeavored to bring Hamlet and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray to Wyoming by building the Capitol Avenue House. It had burned, although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made a very respectable gambling house from the remains. Senator Warren passed the red-brick schoolhouse, the Elks Club house, bumped bustling Babbitts, paused before the skeleton of an impressive modern building - his new theatre, which will open this winter. Manhattan producers are pleased to have a stopping-off place between Denver and California. Soon stage-effects will gleam where once campfires flickered. Again half-clad...
Some 30 years ago, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt conceived the idea of building himself a $1,000,000 home. He did. Its red brick facade with white stone facing, its handsome wrought iron fence, rise in all their French majesty on the south of Plaza Square, Manhattan, a magnificent pile. "But who," you ask, "would want to make it his private home?" Just so. The shutters...
Rain trickled and streamed down the banked brick turns of the great Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twenty-eight tiny speedcars, all "specials," set out to cover 500 miles at over a mile and a half a minute, to race for the international motor sweepstakes. Hearst-Editor Brisbane acted as chief referee-a post held in past years at Indianapolis by Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab. . . . After something more than three and a half hours of breathtaking skids and recoveries, the judges decided to flag down the first car passing the 400-mile mark as the winner-declined to let the race...
...economy in construction cost. It comprises a row of connected dwellings some of them two story houses of the Philadelphia type, and some of them apartments. The total number of families that will be provided for in this first contract is 43. The houses will be built of local brick and will provide three or four rooms for each of the small families that will use them...