Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plopped behind a fence in the centre of Northampton, Mass., with many an old and ugly red brick building studding its wide, green lawns, Smith foots its sisterly class in beauty of architecture. But Smith girls are not envious. Smart though not notably intellectual, they study hard under a first-rate, liberal, largely male faculty, end their four years with well-furnished minds. They play equally hard-tennis, boating on Paradise Pond, singing in glee club, producing experimental plays and operas. At the cinema their hearts, like those of a million shopgirls, beat hardest for ruffianly Clark Gable. Since...
...waited for the train to come in Prince George, in immaculate morning dress, fingered his top hat nervously for some 15 minutes, waved once or twice to the hundreds of British women who kept waving at him from behind police lines. As Princess Marina stepped out in a sleek, brick-red ensemble Prince George took her in his arms and kissed her on the cheek, received a kiss on his cheek in return...
...third hole in the World-Telegram's 1934 Hole-in-One contest. Odds against a hole-in-one are about 20,000-to-1. After 2,235 balls had been played last week, the closest to a winner was one hit by Edward Searle, 26, a Manhattan brick company sales clerk. It bounced across the cup, stopped 17 in. to the left...
...concrete block the size of a brick was reduced to powder...
...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...