Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Layoffs & Lectures. From the red brick railroad station to Oppenheims, Jackson's big modernistic department store, Main Street was feeling a pinch. The stores were bustling with people, but less than one out of ten customers walked out with a package. Last week 60 clerks who had been laid off reported for unemployment compensation. At the weekly meeting, the manager of the Sears, Roebuck store lectured his employees: "This week we dropped another $11,000 from our previous week ... I must ask you to watch every penny, be it in the cash register or in the electric bill...
Competitions for all four boards of the CRIMSON will open at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the little brick building at 14 Plympton st.. Prospective candidates are invited to come in and learn how the CRIMSON ticks and how a competitions is run. Beer will be free...
With his two sisters, Joseph worked all day on his father's 20 acres, lived in his father's one-story house that was built of sun-baked brick. When he went to the seminary in a nearby town, many of his fellow students looked down on him as a peasant's son. He was an intense, unsmiling and brilliant student...
Next morning a letter from Southwark sent clerks from Conservative headquarters scurrying to check. In no time their faces were wreathed in happy smiles. Soon afterward faces at Transport House, where Labor holds forth, turned a dull brick red. "I deeply regret the mistake," stammered Party Secretary Morgan Phillips as he withdrew the boomeranging pamphlet amid general guffaws. "The photograph was selected from a collection of 13 supplied by a picture library in response to a request for suitable postwar babies...
During the mile drive in his little car, they lost some of their shyness and began pelting him with excited questions. And as they rounded a curve and saw the red brick houses set in wide surrounding fields, one of them exclaimed: "Just think -a village...