Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snowy-haired Thomas William Barnes, 85, who runs the little Red Brick Corner Hotel, offered a free site. Bill Cook, who sent four sons off to World War II, gave $25 out of his World War I Army pension. Sergeant Billy Brown, just back from overseas, chipped in with the comment: "It's a great idea." Within an hour 100 Hamptonians had subscribed...
...Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning...
...usually home by 7:30 in the evening, usually stays there. His Georgian brick house, comfortably furnished with early American pieces, is far from palatial. Its four bedrooms are big enough for the family. Still worried about kidnappers, Young Henry has never permitted the house to be photographed. Nor has he ever let the press take pictures of his daughters, Charlotte, who will be five in April, and Anne, two and a half...
...York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation and abuse." Then Woodward steamed out to arrange a rival meet on the same day in some "civilized community," talked about renting New York's Randalls Island Stadium...
...When the U.S. begins to fill its needs by production, its conversion problems will still be far from over. The materials and the manpower of the nation will have to be drastically reallocated. There will not be enough steel to go around, nor enough lead, nor lumber, pipe, tiles, brick...