Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
Sample. At Fort Knox, Ky., officials received a letter from a Floral Park (N.Y.) writer: "Gentlemen: Please send me a gold brick and some material on Ft. Knox...
Except for the people in them, those red-brick apartments along the Charles aren't much different. Adams House has a pool, and Eliot House has a basement snack-bar, but a Leverett House man is a man who wouldn't sell his soul for an afternoon plunge or a hot-dog with relish...
Little Girl. When she is asked about her past, Perle conjures up a picture of an Oklahoma childhood liberally sprinkled with scenes of little Perle in colored hair ribbons matching the sash around her waist. The little girl lived in a big, red brick mansion with stables out back, where each child had its own Shetland pony. Perle likes to say that she organized her first party on her twelfth birthday...
Fifty years ago, in the days of bloomers and tin bath tube, Radcliffe cheered the addition of a permanent brick gymnasium to the cluster of building up Garden Street. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, wife of the donor of the University's Hemenway gymnasium dedicated the now structure in June...