Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youngest of Winston's four surviving children,* Mary Churchill spent many a childhood hour building brick walls with her father at their Westerham country home. She loved to ride, take long country walks; she took charge of all pets. At six she astonished a reporter by demanding: "Are you going to be a Conservative or aren't you? Because if you're not, I shall cross your name off and whenever I pass you I shall say: 'Shame! Shame...
...driving from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fla. when dusk halted me in the lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn...
...Institute flourishes in a single handsome red-brick building, Fuld Hall, at the west end of town. Fuld is surrounded by lush Institute acres-site of the Revolutionary Battle of Princeton. The Institute's founders, Louis Bamberger (of the great Newark department store) and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, have given the scholars $8,000,000 worth of scholarly apparatus and comforts...
...funds could ever refuse him. With a piano, a bottle of gin, and a hot weather handkerchief, he is one of the most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...
Last week Boeing made good news and bad news: 1) production of B-17s is "far behind schedule" because Boeing cannot get some 9,000 crucially needed workers; 2) after two years' dickering, Phil Johnson bought, for $7,700,000, every last brick and bolt of Plant...