Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's red-brick Church House, a relic of Queen Victoria's jubilee and once a haven for the bombed-out House of Commons, was being readied for another transient tenant...
Community Bricks. In the center of Berlin, within a circle about five miles across, the destruction is what the army calls complete. Here the buildings are only shells or piles of brick and mortar dust. Yet even here it is only the buildings that are destroyed-not the materials of the buildings. Much of the brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees...
...hottest bands in all the land has never been heard by the public. But Tin Pan Alley knows it well as Brick Fleagle's Rehearsal Band, vaguely describes it as a "jazz workshop." Brick's band consists of 16 key musicians from top-ranking bands who meet once a week to improve their techniques by moaning & groaning the blues and blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record...
...hour was musician's midnight (9 a.m.). Hulking, disheveled Roger "Brick" Fleagle-an ace arranger for such name bands as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...
...plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened...