Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harriet and Vetta Goldstein, who even lecture jointly, live quietly with their mother, Mrs. Hannah Goldstein, in a neat, red brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
...home is in Brookline, a district of Pittsburgh. It is a square, plain, seven-room, red brick house which he built 23 years ago, still occupies with his wife and a Negro maid named Orpah. The Murray living room is decorated with oil paintings selected by Mrs. Murray. Her husband's favorite is a seascape. Says Mr. Murray approvingly: "The missus has a very good eye for such things." A onetime star outside-left on soccer teams, Murray's only distraction from labor labors now is at tending prize fights...
...church supper, concert and pageant. Its pool will be used for public ice skating in winter, will help keep the church cool in summer. On this level the east and west wings contain an auditorium seating 500, reception room, kitchen, Bible School classrooms. The upper levels of the brick and Indiana limestone structure contain the light, airy church, a chapel, offices, schoolrooms, two baptistries...
...Manhattan's Riverside Drive, just north of the famed Riverside Church and close to Columbia University, stands a massive brick building named International House. John D. Rockefeller Jr. built it, and over its big front door he had inscribed: THAT BROTHERHOOD MAY PREVAIL. Today students of 50 nations live in International House. Last week, although some of their native countries were at war with each other, inhabitants of International House reported that in their house brotherhood still prevailed...
...general consensus is that those who were there didn't know it either. The evidence he adduces is that on September 8 water mains were "smashed right and left, all over town." "The streets were full of rubble, blown up from direct hits, filled with glass and brick and furniture, plaster, piping. . . . Whole telephone exchanges were out all over town. . . . No traffic--neither fire engines nor ambulances--can get through...