Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month in the year...
...tenements adjacent to the Houses and the Law School offers a problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...
...slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions at the N.T.S.G. existed partly because no one knew about them, Carrie Smith set out to make them known. Her campaign reached its peak when she got Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt interested in her problems...
...they watched the monster's movements the negro suggested that they could destroy it by heating a fire-brick in the stove, wrapping it quickly in some old greasy cloths as a sort of disguise and then heaving it overboard. The suggestion was acted upon at once and the effect was triumphant...
Biggest house on the Annapolis grounds, the white glazed-brick quarters of the U. S. Naval Academy's Superintendent have been occupied since 1934 by onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet, David Foote Sellers. Rear Admiral Sellers reaches .the navy's statutory retirement age of 64 next February. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson announced the name of his successor who will move in as Superintendent next Feb. i: Rear Admiral Wilson Brown Jr., now commander of the U. S. fleet's training detachment...