Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for divorce. Harold P. ("Brick") Muller, famed 1922 all-American football end, of the University of California, by Bernice Berwin Muller, in Oakland. She charged "a cold, indifferent and supercilious manner...
Hell!" In response to an edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people...
...Business School buildings will be built of dark red brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved...
Reading is a red-brick town, an hour from London, famed for biscuit factories. Its chief health officer- Dr. Milligan-delivered a report on the weight and height of its children as compared with American juveniles. He found that Americans were greater in both dimensions. At age 12, American boys stand 56¼ inches and weigh 79 pounds. Reading boys stand 54¼, weigh...
...which he said that the aim is not to make public speakers but private speakers. This new plan has been adopted after consultation with various debating organizations throughout the University, and will receive its first test Saturday night. It marks a relegation to the background of the old debating brick-bats, and is bound to make the debate more interesting...