Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-two more meters are about to grace the north side of Mount Auburn Street between Boylaton and Linden Streets. They will be ready for operation in less than a week, said a Police Department employee who was present at the inaugural annihilation of the old brick sidewalks yesterday evening...
...spell about him. . . . The secret does not lie in the promise of conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined...
...suburbs and walls of Hofei bristle with defense works Chinese style. Mud-brick pillboxes, screened with briars and entwining tree branches, flank the gates at every compass point. Behind the barricades is fear and hate...
...agrees with many a highbrow in thinking that the greatest of all comic strips was the late George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a gentle, loving soul constantly tormented by her great love, Ignatz Mouse, whose joy in life was to "krease his [Kat's] bean" with a brick. Some partisans saw the Kat and Mouse as latter-day versions of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Poet E. E. Cummings found Krazy's faithfulness a vindication of the principle of love...
...Sanders became a Christian at a revival run by Texas Evangelist Dr. George W. Truett. When the single-room, red-brick Valley Christian Church needed a pastor, he began preaching on alternate Sundays to its congregation of eight. Since 1923 he has carried on alone, with weddings and sick calls as well as sermons. Now his congregations run to 150, out of a membership...