Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renegade Democrat. If Candidate Willkie had any inkling of all this, last week, he showed small concern. The only gloom in Rushville, Ind. was a deep, cool shade beneath black walnut and apple trees, out in back of t ie 80-year-old worn brick house on Harrison Street which he had rented as a temporary residence. Wearing carpet slippers, Willkie lolled under the trees, supremely confident of victory...
...statement that the hospital is "rickety" is untrue. The hospital is a modern structure of brick and steel construction and is in good physical condition...
...Salem's "tents" (pre-Civil War frame shacks in which tenters sleep on straw-filled bunks) went 300 campers, including many a family which has attended Salem camp meetings for generations, looks upon them as its annual vacation. On Sundays brick-red dust smoked up from the dirt road into Salem's 65 acres as thousands more arrived to hear a thunder of evangelists, headed by a redheaded, blue-eyed, 81-year-old Methodist, Dr. Bascom Anthony...
Last week the biennial convention of the Congregational and Christian Church met in the big brick First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Calif. Firmly rooted in town-meeting tradition, the individual congregations of the C. & C. Church do their own thinking and talking. For this independence the retiring moderator, Dr. Oscar E. Maurer of New Haven, Conn., last week took his fellow churchmen to mild task. "Much of our work," said Moderator Maurer, "fails in effectiveness because we so generally prefer to do it separately, each...
...when Warren moves his papers to the red brick Old Pension Office Building on Judiciary Square, he will take a post which demands all the painstaking concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire...