Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After You! In Denver, Hyman Meyers, trying to release his two-year-old grandson from a locked bathroom, tore the knob off the door, ran outside, chucked a rock through a window, clambered into the wrong room, climbed out, tossed another brick, made it, tugged off the rest of the knob on the bathroom door, had to be rescued by the police...
...Waterproof brick and mortar...
Gangling "Brick Top" Eddy never went to high school. After his parents' divorce, he went with his mother to Philadelphia, where he was working for an advertising agency when a friend, who had heard him roaring around the house, introduced him to the late baritone, David Bispham. Bispham thought Eddy had "a native voice as great as any baritone that ever lived," trained the 21-year-old for his public debut in a musical play at the Philadelphia Academy of Music...
Lawyer's Legend. New York was more aristocratic, less intellectual. But the little city (pop. 60,000 in 1800) of yellow brick buildings and whitewashed brick houses at the tip of Manhattan Island was already friendly to painters and actors. Washington Irving, aged 17 in 1800, used to climb out the bedroom window of his home on William Street, after family prayers at night, to sneak to the theater...
...ruddy-faced, grey-mustached man of middle height, he is as straight as an old soldier, somewhat resembles one in his severely simple working life and the spare common sense of his words. With the earnings of The Flowering of New England he built a square white brick house on the top of an isolated hill four miles from Westport, Conn. It has high ceilings, soft-toned walls, many windows, large rooms, a view of the Sound, books, comfortable chairs and the pictures collected by a writer who, liking artists, says "they are just like writers without the nonsense...