Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...also a graduate of Union Theological Semmary, and a Presbyterian clergyman. I was at one time associate pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City and afterwards was head of the American Parish Among Immigrants of the Presbyterian Church of New York.. I hasten to acquit any of these agencies for deliberate participation in my downfall. I am now editor of the 'World Tomorrow,' lecturer in the Rand School, Stump speaker, soap boxer and temporarily paroled in my own custody by the Mount Vernon police court. Mount Vernon does not refer to Washington's birthplace...
...chimes are here now. They are in the new brick church on Mount Auburn street, and they work awfully well too. Music every hour, may, even every half-hour and quarter-hour, day and night, rain or shine. The denizens of Bow street and Westmorely hear them first; then the sound waves of harmony go clattering down Mount Auburn street echoing and re-echoing against the brick walls...
Massachusetts Hall was started in 1718 and finished in 1720. The Province of Massachusetts heeded the repeated pleas of President John Leveret of Harvard for another building and appropriated 3,500 pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those days, and this was considered a magnificent sum. The building is indeed "a fair and goodly house." Its substantial timbers and brick have stood 200 years of wear and tear...
Today Massachusetts Hall, still a "fair and goodly house of brick," and capable of giving service to many more Harvard classes, is used for examination, for the office of the College Superintendent, and for the famous 47 Workshop, where the students in Professor George P. Baker's courses in drama produce their plays