Word: redbrick
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...Boston, Beacon Hill matrons sat themselves down on their historic redbrick sidewalks, in a last-ditch fight to prevent city workers from ripping them up, replacing them with concrete...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...roly-poly picture framer named Boris Mirski came to Boston from Lithuania. Ever since, while framing New England portraits and brown landscapes for the residents of staid Beacon Hill, he made modern art-a much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...
...tall, tweedy, reserved man with a magnificently well-kept mustache, Dean Acheson looks like the average man's idea of the typical diplomat, elegant without being stuffy. His handsome, brunette wife is an artist. They have a remodeled redbrick house in Georgetown and a 100-acre weekend farm in Sandy Spring...
...COLLEGE in which most other extracurricular organizations will be dead, the redbrick building on the one-way cow-path, 14 Plympton Street, will continue to be a focus of undergraduate life. The punch-bowl will seldom over-run this summer, but typewriters will still pound on yellow copy-paper the news of the University...