Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that she wants to marry-whatever that might be -they propose for her to Jarman, one of the muckier farm hands. "Not I!" says Jarman. "You dreadful children!" says the nurse. When they are back in the dirty brick city of Hastings again, "Oh God," prays Selina, "please one day may I always live in the country...
...order to render the room fireproof, plans are now under way to remove the wooden paneling which conceals heavy brick walls on three sides of the hall. The wooden beams which support the roof will be replaced by steel beams, and, taking the present stone floor into consideration, the room will be rendered almost completely free from a fire risk by the alterations...
Studios are located one above another in a noise-deadening brick tower which fills the centre of the flatiron. "Moisture given off by people in the tower," according to B. B. C., figures out at "one ton in a twelve-hour...
...open the "ugly, big, heavy, bare,forbidding red brick factory," Edward of Wales arrived by plane, was announced by a Shakespearean blare of trumpets. He unlocked the doors with a golden key. Mr. Mellon unfurled the Stars & Stripes, H. R. H. the King's flag...
...Described by a correspondent of Britain's leading Conservative paper, the London Morning Iost, as "just dreadful-an ugly, big. heavy, bare, forbidding red brick factory with the straight lines of featureless windows and a tower-like tank-utterly out of harmony with the lovely Avon reach that it does its best to monopolize" (being built on the river's brim...