Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while there were no Meadow Larks. Then the second Hitchcock boy, Francis ("Frankie"), was big enough to start.* When he was going to school in Aiken, S. C. his mother sent him mallets and balls enough for two teams. They played on bicycles on a red clay field. Later Frankie had a hard fall that ended his riding for the time, but the boys who had played with him, still trained by Mrs. Hitchcock, developed into the Old Aiken team which last year carried off the Junior championship, the Westbury Challenge Cup and the Herbert Memorial trophy...
...Common Clay (Fox). When this play won a Harvard prize some years ago (1915) it was considered sensational for its courtroom scene. In a devious manner, with this scene as the climax, the heroine, a night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such...
...Rome last week one Guarino Roscioli, young sculptor, chiseled with Renaissance fever on a marble bust of and for Pope Pius XI. The commission was a result of His Holiness' good nature. He had seen a passable clay model which Sculptor Roscioli had made solely from photographs, had summoned the young man to correct some lineaments from a personal sitting...
...means high. Kaolin, the white clay used in medicine and porcelain is Chinese for high hill, where the clay is found...
Short-legged runners often have trouble getting started. A poor start was what beat Eddie Tolan of Michigan, holder of the official world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.) in the intercollegiate championships at Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B. C., Tolan tensed his little black body beside the big white frames of George Simpson (Ohio State) and Percy Williams of Canada, the Olympic champion. When the gun cracked it was Tolan who sprang away fastest. He led all the way to the tape, 100 metres away, arriving there...