Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouting, excited city all that day, but towards nightfall there dropped down over the great stone buildings a profound silence. There is something calm in a busy city that is uneasy and restive, for it is the calm of men skulking in dark alleys and of vague shadows on brick walls. The strange lack of sound sent a stir through the King's Guard and they swaggered a trifie obviously as they strode about the streets that night...
...hard to capture the spirit of the place. President Lowell was indeed succinct when he said at a recent dinner that the House is built of Love. "You can see it in every brick...
...Government but continue their credit assistance to the roads. That there was nothing personal in this rift of R. F. C. opinion was evidenced when, after a board meeting, Mr. Dawes slapped Mr. Meyer on the back and exclaimed: ''Gene, you're a brick...
...afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park, isolated from the city by a wide belt of old brick houses, garages and disused beer gardens, come all the riffraff of the homely town, and most of its substantial citizens...
There was much of the usual magnificence. John P. Morgan's gardener, James S. Kelly, showed a wide border of giant tulips against a background of flowering dogwood. Mrs. Payne Whitney's Henning Michelsen built a brick-walled garden, gay with wisteria and flowering bulbs. Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm...