Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth of neutrals chattered, bitter cold hit the continent. Icy winds from the steppes blew across the Balkans, sending the temperature to -30°. In The Netherlands the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks...
...oldest artists' clubs in the U. S. (founded 1860) is the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Since Etcher Joseph Pennell warmed his coattails in its snug, chimney-potted, red-brick clubhouse on narrow Camac Street, drinking tea by the quart and muttering against the Philistinism of his native city, the Sketch Club has seen chilly days. Few years ago its treasurer absconded, leaving it with 16? in the bank. Still intact, however, are the club's fine library, its tankard-lined rathskeller, its walls tiled with paintings and prints. Still going strong is the club's annual Christmas party...
Billy Hull held on to his money, was worth around $250,000 when he died, mostly in real estate in Tennessee and Florida. He built a home in Celina, 15 miles west of Star Point; another at Carthage; a three-story brick business block which Celina still calls "the skyscraper." But to the end of his life he would go off to Florida for the winter with all his clothes in a cardboard valise, a battered tin cup tied to the handle, riding the caboose with the brakemen...
...last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years...
Placidly ignoring the storms such paintings raise, Artist Wood lives in Iowa City in an old red-brick house remodeled by himself. He likes jokes with the same dry irony as his pictures. Once he told his fellow-Iowan Henry Wallace that he had just perfected a type of clover seed that would increase the nation's clover crop by one-third. Agog, Wallace pressed Wood for details, found it was "a seed that grows nothing but four-leaf clovers...