Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minnesota he designed a $4,500,000 classical Capitol of Georgia marble and granite, a 142-ft. rotunda. His Municipal Building in Waterbury. Conn, was pure colonial in brick and white marble. Detroit's white marble Public Library was Italian Renaissance. The Union Central Life Insurance Building in Cincinnati was a towering office building. The $10,000,000 West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston was Classic. In 1899 he won a competition with a French Renaissance rendering for a U. S. Customs House in Manhattan, moved to Manhattan shortly thereafter...
Commissioner-designate Studebaker could earn his living as a brick mason if he needed to. As such, he worked his way through Toledo. Iowa's Leander Clark College (since merged with Coe), still holds a union card. Des Moines credits that experience with saving it many a dollar during a $7,000,000 school building program, and architects from all over the world go to see the building he planned for Des Moines' Smouse Opportunity School for the crippled...
...stooges were actually demonstrating against is a subject still shrouded in the dust of City Square, but the idea seems to have been that the denting or the sleek gray sides of the "Karlsruhe" and the possible laying out of a few sons of the Fatherland by well-placed brick-bats would be a peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when so many avenues...
...worth of meat, he retired to his garage. The gardener helped chop the meat and Mr. Goff took it around to neighbors' kennels. Their tongues and their dogs' coats were all the advertising he needed. By last week Mr. Goff was occupying a two-story brick building in leafy Ardmore, paying 13 men & women some $250 per week to prepare and serve dog meals. He was remodeling a onetime Japanese beetle quarantine station at Oakmont for use as a wholesale plant, to be opened next week. For seven weeks he had been incorporated, with a socialite partner...
...past than its future. Illinois' Britten charged that it was written by "the scarlet fever boys in the little red house in Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical enough!" Stolid Representative Mapes of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, which reported the bill, doggedly claimed that it was "the work...