Word: clay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of one-act plays, all written by Harvard students or graduates. A dramatization of Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers" was done with mediocre results, since the plot did not lend itself well to stage production. Cleves Kinkead, who was studying at Harvard in 1914 and whose "Common Clay" won the Craig prize for the same year, wrote "The Four Flushers," which the Dramatic Club produced. On the same bill was "The Clod," by E. L. Beach '13. "The Clod" has since toured the country on various vaudeville circuits...
...President accepted the invitation of Representative R. Walton Moore (Dem.) of Virginia to "quit work for the afternoon and go sightseeing in Virginia." Together with Mrs. Coolidge they ' quietly left the White House, motored south along the road which Henry Clay and John Randolph had traveled one early morning to fight a duel.* The Presidential party halted at the farmhouse which President Madison had occupied in 1814 when the British captured Washington and burned the White House. At Fairfax courthouse they looked upon the wills of George and Martha Washington, read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury...
Uncle George Clay is the central figure, a patriarchal country doctor of many opinions and few patients, the patron saint of practical joking, as prodigal of his considerable wit and scholarship as he is of his money. He sits in his big chair playing with his "chilluns," drinking punch, arguing temperance, theology, education; jesting coarsely, slyly, uproariously; secretly planning, and executing, gruff generosities...
...often found in libraries, to a corporation lawyer named Walter Butler Mahony, brother-in-law of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, for a sum that he refused to state.* And why did Colonel George Harvey sell his magazine? Because he is going to write the biography of Henry Clay Frick...
JAMES BRANCH CABELL is fond of pointing out that two-thirds of fiction consists of variations of the Cinderella myth. "Miss Tiverton Goes Out" upholds this theory; but the Juliet of the story is a new kind of Cinderella. She has looked carefully at the Prince's clay feet and already knows too much about the ashes on the hearth: she comes to the unconventional conclusion that she desires no portion in either...