Word: clay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pride is the historical constant of the United States Senate. All generation of Senators from Clay and Webster, through Douglas and Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...
...very light, only about a third as heavy as iron. None the less it was not really isolated as a metal until 1828, the reason being that it is comparatively difficult to separate from the other elements with which it is commonly compounded, as with silica in clay. The result was that aluminum attained no great use because of its excessive cost, until an electrolytic method of obtaining it from a special mineral, bauxite, was discovered in 1886. That made aluminum a commercial possibility on a large scale. The realizing of that sudden possibility made fortunes for those...
...speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...
Stevenson need not take all this too personally, wherever he is. He is only the latest person chosen to nourish the joy that lies in being shown that, in actual fact, the idol's feet are of a very crumbly clay. In due time, he will come into his own again. The true Stevenson will at length emerge, a man somewhat between the idealistic angel against whom Mr. Hellman has delivered his broadside, and the opposite conception which he himself has delineated...
...Stone, clay, glass products...