Word: clay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not try to make her miniature's lifelike and for that reason is more artistic. . . ." She says of her process that she uses pure White beeswax and melts the color into it. To a large extent she makes her portraits by taking casts of a clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with a hot tool. She has been especially successful in portraits of infants and small children where the delicacy of the flesh and coloring...
...Only the waning season can account for the descent upon the stage of a comedy like this. It represents the efforts of various groups to gain possession of a farm which contains a beauty clay and therefore becomes, for the purposes of farce, as precious as the Ruhr valley. The authoress, Katherine Browning Miller, manages to hammer out a witticism now and then by virtue of trying...
...Dennisms Bright, superintendent of grounds and a squad of half a dozen men were busy all yesterday afternoon putting up the nets and rolling the courts. The new courts are surfaced with clay, and when once they have been rolled hard. Mr. Enright expects that they will afford a better playing surface than the 16 old gravel courts...
...ordinary bread and wine, if available. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor (himself no respecter of tradition) : "In the old days you got out the children's rubbers and umbrellas, and lighted the stable lantern, and walked a mile in the wet grass, along the edge of a clay road to the night prayer meeting in the small country schoolhouse. "That seemed to make religion important and added interest to the hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently...
...Oxford and Field Museum expedition (TIME, July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...