Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confessed Communist spy. (But none admitted knowing that she was a spy.) Many of the people named by Miss Bentley-either as co-spies or as purveyors of confidential Government information-admitted that they knew each other. Three also said that they had been visitors at a small, red brick house in suburban Chevy Chase...
...figures he did introduce looked stiff and lonely; they were transients, put there to emphasize the frozen rigor of the streets and buildings Hopper loves. At 66, in his deceptively simple pictures, he has done more than any other painter to define the beauty of Manhattan's steel, brick and brownstone shell...
...teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages; and for listless hours when the rain is falling, a round of regimented frolic that smashes British reserve...
...gets interested in newsboys who are tough and toughly used. Thanks to a disconcerting, downright embarrassing skill at cadging, badgering and sharp dealing in the interests of a good cause, he manages to found a home for them-first a ramshackle old wooden one, at last a portly new brick one. The boys, needless to say, are mischievous little devils but angels at heart. The one exception (Darryl Hickman) is ruined by the influence of his particularly villainous father (well played by Joseph Sawyer...
...They led Ruth Brown Snyder from her steel cage tonight. Then the powerful guards thrust her irrevocably into the obscene, sprawling oak arms of the ugly electric chair . . . The body that once throbbed with the joy of her sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray...