Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas, died in 1925. By her he had three sons. One, Lehr, was House parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says he. "is a hoe." Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a dependable party wheelhorse, inoffensive, pleasant, industrious (his critics call him "fussbudgety"), of average intelligence and below-average imagination. As long...
...AFTER TERROR Thus read a one-column headline in the Kansas City Star one clay last week. Another in an adjacent column read...
...memories of the lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal Sumerian funeral: "Down the sloping passage comes a procession of people, the members...
...period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham trod the same soil...
James Alexander Gray, vice president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., brother of Board Chairman Bowman Gray, was elected president, succeeding S. Clay Williams who became vice chairman...