Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present two trained workers are sending from six to ten feet of brick hurtling down the inside of the chimney each day, with only occasional larger slabs falling outside to delight the casual spectator, and provide material for Film Foundation photographers...
There are two million bricks in the twin smokestacks of the ex-power plant, and each one must receive personal attention before its relations with Harvard University can be severed. A brick is like nothing else in the world. It cannot be suspended, for a well-established precedent rules that each brick must be placed firmly on the top of another. It cannot be placed on probation, because one small laugh would bring down the house. From the moment when it enters the kiln as an amorphous piece of clay with possibilities, a brick is doomed to be fired...
Some will waste their sympathy on the bricks. Some will ominously compare the rumble of their falling to the sound of the tumbrils passing through the streets of Paris. However, the best thing to do under the somewhat destructive circumstances is to offer a constructive suggestion. According to the present plan, only one chimney is being demolished at a time. This is sheer favoritism. For many years the Stadium's millions have never seen the without the other. Every year some Freshman writes a letter about how nice it would be if they were permanently united. To preserve this touching...
...allies were confident that Capone would go straight to his brick house at No. 7244 Prairie Ave., the "little home" which he used to give substance to his story of being "out of the booze racket." Three years ago newsmen called upon him there. He opened the door to them, wearing a pink apron, carrying a pan of spaghetti...
Down by the river a group of steadily growing brick buildings bear testimony to the near christening of the Harkness House Plan. Visitors from New Haven view them with deep interest, and mixed emotions. Harvard is hailed as a scoffer at tradition, is admired through many gallons of printer's ink for her adventurous spirit. Yale has regretted and amended her decision...