Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy. In 1890 he went to Princeton, met and admired Woodrow Wilson...
...longer will the Black Muria screech around the corner of Brattle Street with its carloads of inebriates, no longer will the boys in blue climb the steps of the old red brick building on the corner, no longer will Colonel Apted's confreres inhabit Brattle square--gentlemen, pause in your labors to shed a tear for the vanishing past--the Brattle Street Police Station is shut...
...next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military formation...
...regular throbbing of the night falters, the all but unbearable pressure of the vast silence is relieved. Then almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from...
...Southern Pacific R. R. The Louisville & Nashville railroad runs through Spring Station but no trains stop except on flag. Last week a train did stop and out of a private car stepped 15 directors and employes of the Southern Pacific Co. They marched into a one-room brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar railroad system held its annual stockholders' meeting. There were no stockholders present, except the directors. With proxies representing some 2,000,000 shares, the directors voted on routine matters, elected three directors, including Senior Partner George Emlen Roosevelt...