Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house when it gave its first demonstration of the Western Electric Company's newest improvements in sound reproduction. Since then, there has been so much vague talk about "Wide Range" going around that you may have imagined the stage re-modelled for target-practice. To clear your mind of clay-pigeons, the Playgoer will have to resort to technicalities...
Mother Blakeley's chief concern in life is her connection with the D. A. R. Father Blakeley, having neither ancestors nor job, moons disagreeably about the house. Sister Phyllis takes up with a gangling radio crooner (Ross Alexander), marries him during a night out. Brother Clay, Yale sophomore, discovers to his sorrow that the old song was entirely incorrect. He gets a New Haven waitress in trouble...
...economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that can be made into good white paper...
Five years ago directors of a dozen European museums as well as the Metropolitan, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Cleveland Museum of Art and Collectors Helen Clay Frick and William Randolph Hearst discovered that they were all supplied with the works of Sculptor Alceo Dossena in his varying moods. They knew them under a variety of other names and the smell the story aroused was not sweet (TIME...
...merit of showing its subjects in action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London...