Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When night fell rifles passed through the hands of muttering veterans rallying in front of G.I. election headquarters. A block away a movie marquee blazed its attraction: Gunning for Vengeance. Shadowy figures soon lurked along the ivy-covered ridge overlooking the two-story brick jail. A pale yellow light gleamed through the jail's tall front windows; the deputies were inside. Outside, the street was solidly lined with deputies' cars...
That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
...returning home from overseas, it hits him like a brick in the face. (Especially if he comes from Burma, where there was no looting: there was nothing to loot.) If Truth was the first casualty in the war, then ordinary Honesty also has been pretty badly mauled in the peace. The lurid signboard of this state of affairs is the Black Market...
Once, it was the gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom...
Knock, Knock. First Emily cajoled the Board of Education into giving her a shabby old brick school building in downtown Denver-and appropriating some money.* Then she persuaded the Denver Post and the Denver trolley cars to plug the idea in stories and signs. Within a month after Emily Griffith's new Opportunity School had opened its doors, it had 600 students. Opportunity taught anybody (one, a retired barber, was 82). Over the school door was lettered the simple motto: "For all who wish to learn...