Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
...best-selling Native Son into by all odds the strongest drama of the season. Broadway drama critics generally agreed that the book's pain-by-pain account of the Negro hero's tortured mind was more powerful than the play. But in ten scenes, framed within forbidding brick walls, played without intermission, the play says plenty...
...Author. Ellen Glasgow has probably thought more unconventional thoughts than any other gentlewoman in the South. But she has lived a thoroughly conventional spinster's life in the big, grey, brick, Georgian house at No. 1 West Main St., Richmond, Va. Since a heart attack last summer she has scarcely left it. No. 1 is a stately Southern mansion with an iron-fenced front yard, a brick-walled back yard. There are tall magnolias, myrtles, box, ivy, lots of flowers. Ellen's father, who was manager of the Confederacy's only heavy-calibre cannon foundry, bought...
Greatest preparation of all was centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...fine system of 44-foot trunk roads is now abuilding. Traffic on the State highways between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville got into fatal snarls. Until General Devers put his military police on the job, deaths on the highway averaged one every four days. Temporary hospital quarters in the brick barracks were sloppy makeshifts. Four locomotives, shunted on to nearby sidings, last week provided steam heat for an uncompleted hospital...