Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...Illinois sisters named Ford who had been camping at the entrance in their sedan for three weeks, selling souvenir photographs of themselves to buyers farther back in the mile-long queue. By 9 o'clock the grandstands were almost full. Inside the oval of the 2 ½-mile brick track, remnants of the crowd of 168,000 wriggled into rows of bleachers on the tops of busses...
...well, however, and there may still be a use for student prospectors. Because they can't even find the old 30-foot brick well upon which the pump is to take up its stand. There are no old charts available, and so they can only go by photographs and by the knowledge that the concrete slab covering the old well is four feet below grass-level. Hours of poking with a crow-bar have failed to reveal any concrete slab...
...girls, mostly Negroes, aged 14 to 21, were its inmates. All had been thrice convicted, mostly for sex offenses. Twenty-six of the girls were syphilitic and practically all of them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls. One delinquent had her illegitimate baby in her cell. All of them ate in the kitchen where the laundry was hung to dry. The only training was doing the School's chores...
Through Tennessee's remote, mountainous Fentress County runs one modern paved road-the Alvin C. York Memorial Highway. On the highway at Jamestown, the county seat, stands one modern brick building-the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Not in the Institute last week was its founder, Fentress County's beefy, red-headed first citizen. He sat in gloomy exile at his farm at Pall Mall, six miles away...