Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mulattoes' Hearts. Mulattoes, even if their heart arteries are stiff as clay pipes, do not complain of angina pectoris, owing simply to their "inability to correctly interpret and describe the pain sensation rather than to lack of mental stress and strain as suggested frequently in the past." Such was the finding of Drs. Emmet Field Horine, 50, & Morris M. Weiss, 34, of Louisville...
...Gulliver (Amkino) contains what is probably the most extraordinary cast ever seen in cinema: 3,000 puppets. Made of clay, rubber, metal, wood and cloth, specially designed to act for the camera, they are operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population...
...memorial portraits of its Speakers to hang on the crowded walls of the lobby just outside the Chamber. (Before that, deceased Speakers got their photographs stuck up in the Speaker's room.) First oil to make the lobby was a portrait of Henry Clay by Giuseppe Fagnani. Of the 45 Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark...
...Henry Clay McComas in Ghosts I Have Talked With...
...that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced the industries of the clay-headed colossus...