Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Bank of tiny (pop. 150) Virgil is a two-story, stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
...then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family, and off & on, the spiritual life of Middletown...
...guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching up out of a mass of brick and timbers . . ." and very little else of the sth Battalion. But the British tanks, "their commanders standing like conquerors in their open turrets," rumble through, towards Germany...
...Sidney Bechet, Trombonist Kid Ory, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton and Cornetist Bunk Johnson. But Cornetist Joe ("King") Oliver was his favorite: "Soon as I heard him I said 'there's mah man!'" At first, Louis just listened. He ran errands, hawked bananas, ground up old brick and sold it to prostitutes for scouring their front steps on Saturday mornings. When he was eleven, he also started a street quartet in which he sang tenor, picked up loose change by serenading through the red-light district. Says Armstrong: "A drunk come along, and maybe he'd give...
Barnard College for women, the poor, proud relation of Columbia University (endowment: $75 million) was out to improve its financial lot. Barnard, whose red brick buildings of institutional classic stand along Manhattan's upper Broadway, only a stone's throw from Columbia's city campus, has an academic reputation which only such women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr can equal, and a faculty (borrowing from Columbia's) that most others cannot. But last year, asking no more tuition ($700) than most other top schools, Barnard (endowment: $5,000,000) operated...