Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Claude W. Brenner of "The Tech" picked up the cry saying "There seems to be no good reason why this noble edifice should be named in honor of that aggregation of red-brick buildings (he means Harvard) up the river, particularly when that worthy institution is so far removed from the structure in question...
...Broad Street, the bronze statue of a Union soldier (First Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard) backed against the red-brick headquarters of the Union League of Philadelphia. Old, dignified Republicans, walking up the curving steps to lunch on stewed snapper or crabmeat Dewey while discussing politics and finance, sometimes gave the bronze hero a glance. Theirs was the party which saved the Union 81 years...
...Republicans were surging back to political power. Ed Martin traipsed triumphantly in & around Philadelphia. He went out to fashionable Wyncote (see cut). He marched out to speak in a neighborhood of dirty, dingy brick houses. This was the rebellious northeast section which three times had helped to throw Philadelphia into the camp of Roosevelt. Here were the hosiery mills, the machine shops and shipyards. Franklin Roosevelt had been their idol. But Roosevelt was dead...
...misty Berkshire dusk, while the Windsors were in London (he at the Palace to see the King, she, excluded, to have tea with an unnamed friend), a nimble burglar had slipped past two Scotland Yard detectives, clambered up a drainpipe at rambling, red brick Ednam Lodge and gained entrance to the Windsors' white-walled bedroom. He went to a Gladstone bag, removed a brown leather jewel case. From a small leather box on the Duke's bedside table, he plucked a valuable watch. Two hundred yards away, he stopped, picked through the jewel case, discarded some inexpensive hatpins...
...million dollars were poured into the Brunswick's construction, when red brick and sandstone were originally mortered together on the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets in 1874. And this summer, after the hotel had for nearly 70 years catered to what an 1880 advertisement called "influential persons of taste," the University invested another $25,000 to revamp the marble-floored hallways, high-ceilings bedchambers, and tiny-tubbed bathrooms, into suitable apartments for 115 couples who need, as well as a place to go to school, a place to live, in Post War year...