Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further word from "Cissy." Thereupon the Post published its own announcement that the Herald would appear next day with Sunday comics by special courtesy of the Post. After one edition the Post hastily killed its own announcement. Reason : Editor Patterson had quietly removed the disputed features, had substituted Brick Bradford, Mandrake the Magician, Rose O'Neill's Kewpies and an animal feature by Frank Buck, rushed to her from Manhattan by air express...
...vigor and regularity with which he dissented from the opinions of a conservative majority. Leaving his Capitol office one day in 1932, aged 90, he said to his assistants, "I won't be in tomorrow." Thus, simply, he withdrew to the quiet of his old-fashioned red brick house on Washington's I Street...
...enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...
Madam Secretary Perkins called in the architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...