Word: clay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mahonri Young's sculpture, at the Rehn Gallery, was certainly the best exhibition seen in Manhattan since Jacob Epstein flashed his gauche madonnas on a startled babbittry (TIME, Nov. 28). Those who like to read sermons into clay could speak about the "dignity of toil." Sculptor Young had modeled peasants with sad and sensitive faces, a young girl (Spring in Brittany), Porteuse de Pain, and Porteuse de Poissons, figures of women bent beneath burdens, so as to include not a story but the pitying emotion of a fine novel in their strong and individual faces. His prizefighters were less...
...surface, Commander Ellsberg replied, "I have never yet known anyone foolish enough to undertake a salvage job on a time basis." He pointed out that the raising of the ship would be hampered by the fact that it lies in mud, whereas the S-51 rested on clay...
...bobbed hair, but they seem to have preserved their shown tresses because plenty of hair has been found in mummified baskets. Moreover, they made some use of it, weaving it into rope. The women did most of the basket making for which the tribe is famous. There was no clay pottery among them and they seem to have employed baskets for every conceivable domestic purpose...
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is probably the only man alive today of whom it can be truly said: "Here is a hero whose feet are not of clay...
...Babylonian tucked his curled black beard out of the way and with a wedge-tipped stylus stamped cuneiform characters into soft clay bricks, which he later baked and for security wrapped in an envelope of clay. That too was writing...