Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JEFFERS OF ALABAMA: "Mr. Speaker, we are being forced today to vote on a 'gold brick' under a 'gag' rule...
...MACLAFFERTY OF CALIFORNIA: "Is a Member who knowingly hands a 'gold brick' to his constituents, a confidence...
...Harvard man, is distinctly attractive. The University did not blossom into being overnight; it has been spreading and adding to itself for almost three centuries, and its very heterogeneity is a living reminder of the past. The afternoon sunlight, glinting through the leaves in summer against the red brick of Massachusetts, besides recalling memories of rugged Continentals, also brings to mind a picture of General Burgoyne, pacing his narrow quarters in Apthorpe House after the battle of Saratoga. And a certain individuality in the execution of Emerson is unavoidably reminiscent of the old Concord sage, a quotation from whose works...
...room school is rapidly disappearing. Citizens in every State of the Union have been aware of the change. They have seen the little white (or, by tradition, red) buildings at the cross-roads falling into decay; they have seen larger brick buildings replacing them at central points; and they have met buses on the hard roads conveying pupils from considerable distances to the new seats of instruction. But few have known that it was a nation-wide affair, few have known that it had a long history behind...
...Archbishop of Chicago? George Mundelein?was also associated with New York from the time of his birth. He served many years as Bishop of Brooklyn. Although the Archbishop's red-brick residence is a landmark in Chicago, Mgr. Mundelein has confined himself almost exclusively to matters purely ecclesiastical and intellectual...