Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column of the Washington Monument, which gleamed in white marble over the well-scrubbed, red brick city from the heights of red clay Federal Hill...
...Paul Comora, a process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building on 115th Street which as usual was full of Negro and white faithful, babbling, "Peace! It's wonderful," and gorging themselves on the cult's free food...
...introduced by Congressman Gavagan from New York's black Harlem. In Jackson, Miss., before delegates to a farm conference, Governor Hugh Lawson White was boasting that Mississippi had not had a lynching in 15 months. In Winona, Miss., in a jampacked courtroom in Montgomery County's white brick courthouse, Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels, 26-year-old Negroes, were pleading not guilty to a charge of murdering a crossroads country grocer during a robbery last December at nearby Duck Hill. One day last week these simultaneous events were the prolog of a bloody melodrama, peculiarly Southern...
...removing the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall or the fat statue of William Penn from atop the City Hall, the most preposterous suggestion to any Philadelphian would be that Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) would rise from its great 12-story brick and steel nest where it prints 17,500,000 magazines every month*, ruffle its tail feathers and waddle away to another State...
...nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what to do, the Conqueror is among them, "broad as a brass door: a hard hero: heavy of heel on the brick." Only the announcer sees that there is nothing inside the armor at all. The People are prostrate. Only the Announcer knows that the People invent their oppressors...