Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Child. So were 1,000 or so other folks. In the background were the rolling farm land and pine forests of south Georgia. In the foreground was Billy's new and modest mansion, 19 long miles from Plains, a kind of post-bellum Tara, built out of brick and grit and Billy's determination to be an altogether different sort of person from his brother...
...amidst 450 acres of sweeping lawns and arching elms, Andover brims with history. Paul Revere engraved its seal; John Hancock signed its charter; George Washington addressed the school in 1789 (on horseback). English classes meet in a cupolaed schoolhouse designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1819; red brick Georgian-style buildings, many built through the beneficence of a Morgan partner in the 1920s, grace the campus...
...handicaps that disabled students encounter at Harvard are primarily of two varieties: architectural and attitudinal. Many of Harvard's facilities are inaccessible, presenting us with difficulties not only in entering them but in using them as well. As one might expect, the University's numerous old buildings, the uneven brick sidewalks and the maniacal automobile traffic in the Square are a nightmare-come-true for a person in a wheelchair...
Patrice Jacobs, named after Damon Runyon's second wife, grew up in the warm comfort of her family's spacious red brick colonial home in Forest Hills, Queens, a horseshoe's toss from both Aqueduct and Belmont. She was educated by nuns, at her Catholic mother's request and with her Jewish father's consent, and sent off to Virginia's very white-glove Marymount College. She inherited her father's fierce passion for horses, even spending college weekends trackside at Laurel, Bowie or Pimlico while classmates went off to football games. Hirsch...
...first, though, it is hard to see anything out of the ordinary. The firehouse, tucked quietly in the shadow of Mem Hall, is a rather traditional looking building which blends right in with the surrounding brick of the Harvard campus. Three companies of the Cambridge Fire Department are headquartered in the house, an engine company, an aerial tower company and the department's special rescue company...