Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigotry and intolerance. At once he and his son are ordered to leave. The press bureau is raided, the son's library stripped. Farnum buttonholes his persecutors long enough to harangue them on freedom, progress, humanity, before he is fatally hit In the head with a brick. His speech, however, seems to have led his listeners to plan a more kindly government...
...bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect the Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth $25,000. Back on the Exchange floor he wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend Stuyvesant Fish decided a gilded paving stone would do just as well. Last year Ben Smith had the dubious pleasure of turning his brick into...
Four years ago the businesslike Elder built a brick church in Washington, plastered it with crosses and slogans "such as "Happy Am I" and "Willingly Jesus Suffered for Victory." He lives in a good neighborhood, runs a Negro employment bureau and a Happy News Cafe, and at odd times issues a paper called Happy 'News which consists mainly of articles about Elder Michaux and God. The Elder forbids smoking and drinking among his followers, enjoins fasting both as penance and as means of saving money for the Church of God and its charities. He accepts no salary, only...
...city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist...
...teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...