Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
...sharp wind blew over Travers Island, over the traps of the New York Athletic Club, over the shoulders of squad after squad of gunners competing, on two days of sunlight, gusts and shadow last week, for the amateur clay target championship of the U.S. Businessmen, farmers, clerks, lawyers, fine shots all, they came out for their turns in squads of five. All day for two days the wind bore the steady blam, blam, blam-blam of a little war as the shooters moved, a serious-minded army about 180 strong, from stand to stand at the club's eight...
...home, Stevenson M. Crothers is a country squire, farms his land, keeps a pair of pointers for bird-shooting in the fall. He shoots clay birds on Saturdays, all the year round, at clubs in his district -Quaker City, North End Gun, Rocksburgh. He won the national championship in 1925, 1927, 1928, and he won it again last week with 193 hits out of 200-wonderful shooting in that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered...
...Theatres. Winfield Sheehan said: "The war is over and we are back in the amusement business." And Fox Film announced a 1930-31 production schedule of 52 feature pictures on which $22,000,000 would be spent. The new Fox picture program, temporarily eclipsed by corporate wrangles, included Common Clay, Alcatraz (in which Cinema-horse Rex will play the lead), Are You There? (with Beatrice Lillie), Women of All Nations (with Victor McLaglen) and a comedy by Rube Goldberg, famed cartoonist. With Fox Film and Fox Theatres again amusement enterprises instead of corporate bodies threatened with dismemberment by warring factions...
...Round-faced, left-handed John Doeg, No. 3 ranking U. S. tennis player: the Southeastern championship in St. Augustine, beating J. Gilbert Hall in an exciting match on clay courts after Hall had him match-point. A few days later Doeg lost a local tournament finals match to George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago...