Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing only a millionth part of Boulder Dam, is an undesirable project or a waste of money? Can we say that the great brick high school, costing $2,000,000 is a useful expenditure but that a little wooden school house project, costing $10,000, is a wasteful extravagance...
...because he discusses plans, theories and mistakes with them. He leaves training rules entirely to his players, sometimes utilizes an extensive flow of dressing-room profanity. Off the diamond, Cochrane is as affable as he is tense and irritable when professionally busy. He lives in a nine-room English brick house with his wife and children. Gordon Jr., 10, and Joan. 4. He plays the saxophone, on which his favorite tune is "The Lady in Red." He shares the enthusiasm of most baseballers for hunting, which he expects to do in Wyoming next month. He smokes Camels, has a ping...
...they moved in solemn parade through Cleveland streets, lively with Eucharistic shields and yellow-&-white Papal colors, to the ugly red brick St. John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland...
...Good Humor is a diminutive brick of ice cream coated with chocolate or coconut and frozen onto a stick. It is sold on roadsides in and about New York. Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami, Tulsa, Detroit, Newark, Dallas and New Haven by young men with bright smiles. The young men have either neat white trucks or dry-ice boxes...
...change their shoes & socks daily, wash their feet with borax water, Epsom salts or ammonia. Each morning a salesman gets a fresh uniform. In making a sale he salutes, says brightly, "Good Humor, may I serve you, sir?" When possible he gets in a word about regulation-size brick ice cream to take home...