Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, the modest neighborhood of Barnaby is inhabited by citizens whose salaries mostly range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Nonetheless, the substantial red-brick house at 3122 Tennyson N. W., home of R.F.C. Counsel Claude E. Hamilton Jr., with its green shuttered windows and cement walk much like its neighbors, was one evening last week the scene of history in the making. A Diamond Taxi drove up to 3122 Tennyson, and stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With...
...anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer Charles J. Hull had surrendered to the encroaching slums, her ribald neighbors threw garbage onto her porch, stones through her windows. In the half-century that followed Hull House was to grow over two city blocks, become one of the biggest, certainly the most famed...
...village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred...
Coshocton Boy. Headquarters of the A. F. of L. is a seven-story brick-&-limestone building in an unpretentious section of Washington at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 9th Street. The slow elevators, the middle-aged employes give the place the atmosphere of an old government bureau. Outside in the sun on benches flanking the entrance sit visiting unionists waiting to buttonhole their leaders as they leave the building. On the top floor in a corner office protected by two women secretaries sits William Green. Among his books are such correspondence school volumes as Training of the Voice, Analysis...
...ugly old brownstone 71st Regiment Armory. Twenty-four trailers, from a one-wheel duck hunter's camp to de luxe three-wheelers with bath, were parked on the Armory floor; outside, too big to trundle through the Armory's great doors, stood a shingle-roofed, imitation brick house on wheels. For seven days at the rate of about 100 an hour some 10,000 trailer-minded people leisurely examined the "future American home...