Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics, its methodical report of his achievements as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, its detailed study of the honors, awards and testimonials bestowed upon him by eminent figures in all walks of life. But despite Tertius van Dyke's naive acceptance of contemporary estimates of his father's greatness, the biography throws a vivid light...
WHOEVER designed William and Mary's earliest buildings, they are certainly more suave, and graceful than Harvard's. Few would agree with Thomas Jefferson's prejudiced epithets: "misshapen piles, which, but that they have roofs would be taken for brick kilns." Box-like they are, but the curve and the arch are introduced for relief. The proportions are ampler, less stilted, than those in the other colonies...
...brick covers a multitude of shades, and the red of Virginia is softer and warmer than that of Massachusetts. The alternating long-and-short pattern of the bricks ("Flemish bond") is accentuated by the deeper-burned color of those laid head outward (the "headers"). In short, without "applying" sculptural ornament of any kind, a less Puritan, more decorative effect has been achieved...
...most important event of his life occurred. Three thousand miles away in Coronado,. Calif, a gentleman who likes the Navy better than the Army suddenly took it into his head to send a telegram before sailing off for the Panama Canal. When the General returned to his red brick quarters on the banks of the Potomac, his wife danced up to tell him that Commander-in-Chief Franklin Delano Roosevelt had appointed General Craig Chief-of-Staff of the U. S. Army, vice General Douglas MacArthur, who was on his way to the Philippines as that Commonwealth...
Here a type has been created, early in the 18th Century, which will influence American college buildings, with local and periodic variations, up to the Revolution. The red "Harvard Brick" has remained the dominant material in all Harvard's later buildings. As a rule, departures from it have been unfortunate...