Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...
...building is to be erected immediately for the Central High School here, and the Board of Education of Rhea Country has voted unanimously to let the present two-story brick building to the Bryan Memorial University Association until the completion of the $250,000 administration building which is now going up on the eight-acre campus of the university. The Central High School building is on a lot adjoining the campus...
When the Roman Emperor Augustus made up his mind to transform a city of brick into a city of marble, he employed Greek architects whose predecessors had designed the temples that still stood, like cool dreams in marble, on the hills of Attica and Sicily. When Francis I of France wanted palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later...
...Atlanta, Tom McGee, ex-convict, threw a brick through a store window, stole a shirt, reported to police. He told the judge that while in prison camp he had grown so fond of feeding the hogs that he wanted to go back. The judge acquiesced...