Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
...hospitals, morgues, missions, flop houses and police stations. He found no trace until he tried the Missing Persons Bureau. A blurred photograph bore his father's name, but no address. A file card said that Joseph Rogon had died of bronchial pneumonia in Chicago's dreary, red-brick Bridewell Prison Hospital...
...businesses. In 22 years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...
Hostile faces stared as he climbed out of his car. Signs-"Hands off our Homes" -glared at him. Nervously he walked to a little red-brick house in Fairview Road, introduced himself as Minister of Town and Country Planning to elderly Mr. & 'Mrs. Arthur Pearson...
After Kapitza's return to Russia in 1935, his most publicized accomplishment was a method of producing cheap liquid oxygen from the air for use in blast furnaces and brick kilns...