Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down, he peered to care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give 'em no rest, day or night. He set every living joint in me agoing, and not being able to stand it no longer, I jumped spang into my seat and jest hollered: 'Go it, my Rube!' Every blamed man, woman and child in the house...
When Sir Hubert, Burma's Governor, arrived in Rangoon a few months ago, he gave a reception in the palatial red brick Government House. During the Japanese occupation, Government House furniture, along with the habit of obedience to British rule, had disappeared. For the party, Sir Hubert's aides scouted up some furniture looted by the Japanese. The guests were fascinated by the decor. Burman leaders wandered about Sir Hubert's rooms pointing to chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north...
...UNRRA observer reported: "Yungnien resembles a city that has been subjected to an air raid. Debris, broken tiles and brick are strewn over the roadside, with telephone lines down. . . . Negotiations are in progress with the National Government for the cost of reparations. . . . The Roman Catholic Church and the buildings on the property in which we were residing have been 'bombed' 38 times. . . . One large package of dried fish plowed through the roof and landed on the pastor...
...Dodds had been training faithfully all along. He had put his "stamina to a test" at Cincinnati last fall in a six-mile race. "Through the Lord," he explained, "I was able to beat my record time by one minute." This winter he is living in a dingy brick tenement in Roxbury, and trying to support his family (wife and two children) and study theology on voluntary gifts from churches where he preaches. Sometimes they give him $5, sometimes $10, sometimes nothing. Says Dodds, grinning: "I trust in the Lord to get me by, and sometimes they...
...doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot that became just sufficiently painful...