Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service men watched and applauded. The President caught ten. Another new sport was clay-pigeon shooting. The President was presented with some handsome shotguns and a set of traps for whirring out the dark four-inch discs with yellow circles on their backs. The secret-service men showed him how to stand at the butt, get set, cry "pull!" and blow the sailing "pigeons...
...Henry Clay Hansbrough, oldtime North Dakota Republican (U. S. Senator 1891-1909), a "progressive regular" who turned Democrat and stumped for Wilson in 1916. Reason: agriculture. Mr. Hansbrough, So, long a resident of Washington, said that he and friends would organize a Smith Independent League in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana...
...cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed...
Alvaro Obregon, born in the remote hamlet of Huatabampo, Sonora, 850 miles northwest of Mexico City, was solemnly returned thither, last week, to seek honest, humble rest. Over his grave will rise no ornate tombstone but at the head will rest a Crown of Clay, baked hard as porcelain. By this traditional symbol, the Republic of Mexico, which cannot crown a living hero, is accustomed to pay royal homage to the Heroic Dead...
...Crown of Clay. General Alvaro Obregon was twice invincible, in valor and in modesty. History does not record that he ever lost a major battle. So invincible was his modesty that during his term as President (1920-24) he would not occupy the Mexican "White House," a sumptuous palace, but resided nearby in his own small house. Such a man did well to refuse in his last will burial in the Mexican National Cemetery...