Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general condition of a whole people. In a city which was probably hit harder than any other in Europe, the Socialists had managed to erect splendid state-owned apartment houses and to build up a magnificent municipal system of public utilities; in Vienna their dreams were realized in brick and mortar and it stood as both a rebuke and a challenge to the other nations...
During the French Revolution a memorable meeting of the Third Estate was held on a tennis court. In Chicago in the last six months two memorable meetings have been held in a gymnasium. The meeters have been the stockholders of Armour & Co. Last week in the big brick building which the late J. Ogden Armour built to make strong Armour meatmen stronger, the stockholders completed the revolution they began last autumn...
...been abused. They listed the values of the richest Manhattan churches:* Trinity ...... .$25,000,000 St. Paul's Chapel 6,600,600 St. Bartholomew's 5,400,000 St. Thomas 5,000,000 Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas 4,000,000 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 3,850,000 Brick Presbyterian...
...contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed, on the day after the fire, by President von Hindenburg at the frantic insistence of Herren Hitler, Goring and Goebbels. Would...
...outsider was admitted to Col. Jake Ruppert's office in his big red brick brewery, but Manhattan newshawks knew what went on inside. Most specific was Reporter Rud Rennie in the Herald Tribune...