Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian England, 50 years ago, she had been better known as Florence May-brick. Convicted of poisoning her husband, she had been the principal in a mystery which intrigued nearly half the world...
Crowds hissed her as she was driven to her trial in the prison van. Her dressy friends flocked to see the trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic...
...becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo's "bogey man." In 1937, when General Itagaki was recalled to Japan, General Tojo became Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army...
...Center's whereabouts is a military secret-except that it is on the seventh floor of a brick, steel and concrete building, a spot immune to any bomb. Supervised by Army officers, its girl volunteers take flashes from the outposts, maneuver discs and blocks about huge table maps, like croupiers at a roulette game. First map is in the Filter Center, where each aircraft is checked and charted-by white discs when its allegiance is unknown, by colored blocks when it is discovered to be hostile. Flight directions are plotted by arrows...
Jooss Ballet. Agnes de Mille had a new ballet on the Manhattan stage last week. In it were brick-red braves and rangy girls in long red underwear, a bouncing Dutch miss and her broad-bottomed Dutch elders...