Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient story about the newly-commissioned officer who marched his men into a brick wall because he had forgotten the command for halt was nearly reenacted in the Yard yesterday...
...went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta Queens. Old Man Town's lawyer bought them "a wine-colored brick monstrosity" on Memphis' Speedway. The girls were enrolled in Miss May's Select School for Fashionable Young Ladies...
...Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Gone are many of the red-brick factories of World War I's war plants, with the narrow windows, bad ventilation and wood floors. Many of 1942's implements of war are made in block-long rooms with broad bands of windows and hard, clean floors; under light sometimes better than daylight, in cool, washed air. Lavatories are generally clean and shiny; there are locker rooms to change clothes...
Fort Des Moines's student population is 800 officer candidates and 500 auxiliaries (privates). Barracks and training facilities can handle 1,300. Semi-permanent buildings are mushrooming to house 3,100 more by mid-September. The brick stables, last vestige of the days when Fort Des Moines belonged to the cavalry, are being made over into barracks. Last week the Army took over three hotels in Des Moines to take care of 2,000 additional auxiliary specialists...
...swank, black Packard whispered over the mud-covered asphalt street, drew up at the new south wing of the District of Columbia's ancient red-brick jail. Out in the rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...