Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large brick "common jail," on the banks of the Anacostia in Washington must go Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for three months. The U. S. Supreme Count so ruled last week. His crime was contempt of the Senate...
...share day is to Manhattan's Stock Exchange, so is a 600-lot day to Manhattan's Cocoa Exchange-drab, brick, Water St. trading centre that fixes the price of the world's cocoa. No small amount is 600 lots, however, as one lot equals 30,000 pounds and 600 lots have a value of close to two million dollars. Last week, Cocoa Exchange transactions reached a day's high of 627 lots, breaking a record of three years' standing. A seat on the Cocoa Exchange was sold for $6,000, a rapid advance over...
...quieting influence of religion should prevent any strenuous demonstration, but mankind can rest assured that, having gotten into Congress, the weaker sex cannot be kept from the pulpit. If precedent means anything, a definite attempt to deny this right always carries with it the danger of a well wrapped brick being hurled through priceless stained glass...
...Building Brick. Duty of $5.25 per 1,000 asked. Importations are said to have increased in three years from three million to 100 million...
When they walk abroad in Boston, where in her father's old brick house in Brimmer Street she lives during his exploring absences, or in Winchester, Va., where Byrds have long had their homes, Commander and Mrs. Byrd usually march side by side with their four children (Richard Evelyn Jr., Evelyn Bolling, Katherine Agnes, Helen) ranged behind them. In their home he has a ceremonious way of listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate...