Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well have furnished a plot for William Faulkner. But in a Faulkner novel the portrayal of decadence would have left no room for Tate's wavering conclusion. Between Novelists Tate and Faulkner the gulf is as wide as that which separated the Border States' champion compromiser, Henry Clay, and the Deep South's champion non-compromiser, Jeff Davis...
Louis Malcolm Clay, Milton, Massachusetts--Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...
...Grand American Handicap, where men and women shoot together, neither topnotcher won. Winner, as usual. was an obscure gunner: 45-year-old Ortello West, county highway superintendent who had been shooting at and around clay targets for 17 years but never before had won "anything worth having." The $1,000 he won last week will go a long way in his home town of Coshocton, Ohio...
Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...