Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residents of River Road sat in the street and on the banks of the dirty Passaic River to watch their children play. Some of the youngsters scampered half-naked about the street, others were swimming in the river or lolling on the shore in front of a grimy brick factory where Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Co. sorted celluloid. Along River Road. Mrs. Josephine Latone pushed her way through the throng of noisy youngsters, nodding to her neighbors, jabbering at her husband, James. She turned toward him to gesticulate...
...potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr Sibley, mother of six, is a busy clubwoman and good speaker, member of the National Council's Woman's Auxiliary. In the big brick Sibley home in Rochester are held many parties, many gatherings of club and church people...
Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
...Indianapolis Speedway was built of a dirt, sand and tar mixture in 1909, rebuilt of brick in 1910 by Carl Fisher, later famed for his promotions at Miami and Montauk Point, and the late James Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just...
Three Little Pigs (Walt Disney) is the latest Silly Symphony in color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...