Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a reporter went to call on Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his three-story brick house at 335 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa. The housekeeper took him to the tiny elevator, pushed the button for the third floor...
Beer and Belligerence. The Lincoln Courier is housed in a brick building on Courthouse Square, with a game room upstairs where thirsty printers can slake their thirst with beer. The Courier is belligerently Republican, more isolationist than the Chicago Tribune, if possible...
Mantrap No. 2. But the biggest job of organization is not the bringing together of brick and mortar. It is the far more complicated matter of bringing together management and labor. A growing series of strikes, particularly a steel strike, would hamstring production...
...ugly red brick buildings, begrimed by industrial smoke, sat on a treeless, limestone hogback. Most of the barracks windows were broken. There were no lawns or plantings around the camp. Worse than the looks of the place were the ugly reports that came from there...
Most war-weary British veterans, dribbling back into civilian life that is still rigorously rationed and restricted, long for the cozily lighted window that means the unrestricted freedom and comfort of home. Through that lighted window John Boynton Priestley has tossed a well-aimed literary brick. Novelist Priestley (The Good Companions; Angel Pavement) is one of British Labor's most popular literary backers. In a brief (32-page), brusque, best-selling pamphlet entitled Letter to a Returning Serviceman, Priestley beseeches ex-Tommies to beware of their heart's desire-"the charmed cozy circle" of home life...