Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears would resurrect...
Harvard, the moulder of our clay...
...America has had its Automobile King, Henry Ford; its Oil King, John D. Rockefeller ... its Chewing Gum King, William Wrigley, Jr. ... its Coke King, Henry Clay Frick...
...from city control was defeated fortnight ago in a mayoral election accompanied by wholesale sluggings and four fatal shootings (TIME, April 9), a bullet whizzed into the dining room of lanky, white-haired City Manager Henry F. McElroy, 68. Manager McElroy, in the adjoining sun room, was uninjured. Next clay his 26-year-old Daughter Mary, for whose release he paid $30,000 when she was kidnapped last May, was summoned to the telephone. A voice barked: "We never miss the second time...
...approve of girls dancing without any covering whatsoever," Sally announced with emphasis. "I shouldn't feel properly dressed at all unless I had something on, and so I smear white clay on my body before each performance. Here in Cleveland the Police also make me wear panties, and, although the audience can't determine whether I have anything on a policeman is always around to make sure I am properly clad...