Word: clay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best known and most significant painter of U. S. portraits lay for many years in an unmarked grave in the old General Central Burying Ground in Boston Common. In 1897 the Paint and Clay Club attached a bronze tablet in the form of a palette...
Candid friends of Seer David, 26, rejoiced last week that he will espouse wholesome, Crack-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, who announced that she will wed "sometime next year...
...usual every Autumn, members of the Bowes-Lyon family were fishing for sporty salmon, last week, in the famed River Spey. Among titled Spey fisher-women the Duchess of York ranks well; but she is admittedly surpassed by Super-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, a niece of Viscount & Viscountess Astor. During the week Miss Spender-Clay distinguished herself still further by announcing her engagement to the Duchess' youngest brother, the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, probably the worst salmon fisherman in his distinguished family...
...Rifle Club members shoot the Springfield government service rifle at a stationary bullseye, in contrast to the Gun Club, which shoots moving clay pigeons...
When newspapers containing accounts of the Prime Minister's speech reached Bewdley, his birthplace, a "Stability Baldwin" rally was held by the Venerable Guild of Bewdley Clay Pipe Makers. While guildsmen puffed their long-stemmed clay pipes, a onetime Mayor of Bewdley, Joseph ("Fiery Joe") Oakes, declaimed the speech entire, only stopping now and then to puff, at a pipe, which he said, "Was first smoked by Stanley Baldwin himself, when he was last among...