Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what the possibilities are. It is conservatively estimated there are $20,000,000 of Negro money hidden under mattresses, behind brick walls, buried in earthen jars or otherwise concealed around the home. It is also estimated that Negroes have in banks, not owned nor operated by persons of their race, from...
...Italian noble, upon opera, jewels, acquaintances raffinées no end, upon a hulking lover she kept all unfortunately. In Maple Valley, she is welcomed for having been baptized there. Ella Poore was her Main Street name and since she left there have sprung up a new depot, waterworks, brick paving. The Countess is euchred, kettle-drummed, lap-suppered, picnicked, violently bored in every small-town way. Then up turns Gareth Johns, curly-headed, 17, and articulate. She enfolds him in her ample eroticism, he in his hunger for the horizon. Off they go together to the everlasting hurt of Lennie...
England. A permanent figure, in bronze or marble, will be executed by Paul Bartlett, U. S. sculptor, in Paris, after it is decided whether Sir William is to stand (in full robes, wig, carrying his Commentaries) in Westminster Hall, where he sat so long, or in the Brick Court, where he had his chambers...
...special attention was given to the "spiritual advantages of frequent communion in combating materialism." The American section, headed by Bishop J. Henry Tihen of Denver, received with delight.the decision to hold the next Congress in Chicago, in 1925. The newly-created Cardinal George Mundelein, from his famed red-brick residence, immediately designated the Sunday preceding the next Congress as general Communion Sunday in the archdiocese of Chicago...
Much of Wall Street's history during 1924 is bound up with Mr. G. F. Baker's vain attempt to take a vacation. Mr. Baker is too important a factor in financial affairs to remain long away from the dingy brick building at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway which houses the First National Bank. Mr. Baker is now en route from Europe-another at- tempted vacation ruined. Again, the cause for his return is the great Van Sweringen railroad mergers. The "Lords of Erie" have in their day been greatly varying types of men. No greater...