Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honest homespun play still holds the boards, and always will, but many a gold brick passes on its tinsel. Affairs might reach a worse state than this, for this at least is fire and food for Grub street, God bless its honest soul...
...agreement with Dr. Coffin are Kev. William P. Merrill, of the Brick Presbyterian Church, and Rev. John Kelman of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Thus, the four leading Presbyterian Churches of New York City are absolutely opposed to the reactionary theology which the General Assembly would like to force upon them...
...League. Last week were noted the unorganized sympathies of the church in regard to the League and the World Court. The Brick Church, Fifth Ave., New York, is having a pro-League course led by such men as John H. Clarke (page 2), Irving Fisher and Hamilton Holt. Classes at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Registration $3.00. Nation-wide distribution of a nonsectarian, poetic prayer for the " Divine Alliance of Nations " is also being pushed. The prayer is written by Dr. Harry E. Fosdick...
...great significance to the common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...
...rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep...