Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey morning on Chicago's southwest side. Sooty slush was ankle deep, the wind whined so bitterly through the littered alleys that the police outside grey brick St. Procopius' Church beat their arms against their sides. But from everywhere the people came...
Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
When she was twelve, her father died. To keep the home together, Mrs. Anderson went to work. Miss Anderson says that the happiest moment of her life came the day that she was able to tell her mother to stop working. Later she bought her mother a two-story brick house on Philadelphia's South Martin Street. She bought the house next door for one of her sisters...
...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...joint deliberative committee of the two groups was appointed at the time of the Yale game, and its recommendations, not due for some length of time yet, will set in motion the wheels that will sell the idea, gather the money, and eventually see the final choice in finished brick and mortar...