Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city shortly after 1500 B.C. Great quantities of inscribed cuneiform tablets show the completeness and precision with which business records were kept. No business man's file today could be more painstakingly kept, nor his protection against law-suit more meticulously complete than that inscribed on unbaked clay tablets 3500 years...
...trol of C. F. Childs & Co. for $3,187,000. Meanwhile, Bond-broker Childs formed Childs Securities Corp., began dealing again in government bonds. Last week it was rumored that Gold man Sachs Trading was offering to sell C. F. Childs & Co. for a comparatively small price. Then the clay after the Prince & Whitely failure the announcement was made that Mr. Childs had bought back the firm's name, that Goldman Sachs Trading would liquidate the now nameless company, all of whose assets were to be in highly marketable securities. It is assumed that Mr. Childs paid much less...
...Common Clay" now playing at the University theatre is taken from the Harvard prize play written by Cleaves Kinkead back in the happy days when Mr. Baker gave his famous English 47. Judging merely from the merits of the picture, there are several good reasons for not missing it, and one of these is the very excellent acting of Miss Constance Bennett. Playing a part once filled by Jane Cowl on the stage, Miss Bennett very ably carries off her characterization with all of the effectiveness that one associates with a stage presentation...
...main virtue of "Common Clay" however, is that it belongs to what might be termed thought provocative drama. The legitimate theatre has been indulging in long laments on the fact that the talkies are seducing the public from them. In this picture the reason for that phenomenon becomes obvious. It is not that the motion picture has an insidious hold on the public, but that they are presenting better plays...
...lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch Miss Terry from Mr. Robertson is a sinister-appearing gaucho from the Argentine who goes by the name of Don Fernando (Clay Clements...