Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years in an English jail for shooting a peeler...
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...shall never see a copy of TIME again without a regret that something that I respected so highly was after all such common clay...
...majority of new colonels came from the ranks of the four brigades into which NRA was originated (TIME, Nov. 6). Typical was Ralph Justin Fogg, Manhattan consulting engineer, longtime Lehigh engineering professor who built cantonments and shipyards during the War. Administrator Fogg got automatic sprinklers, concrete masonry, vitrified clay sewer pipes, four other authorities. Another colonel was wiry little Colonel George S. Brady, engineer and Wilsonian trade commissioner...
Included in an auction sale in Manhattan was a portrait done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...