Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover explained that he was a mere private engineer then, on vacation. Mr. Henry Clay Pierce, late owner of Cedar Island Lodge, did not invite -the visitor to enter, but Engineer Hoover found a back entrance and fished the Brule anyway...
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...place, a 4,160-acre estate, belonged to the late Henry Clay Pierce, oilman, business adventurer in Mexico, millionaire. It was tendered to the President by Clay A. Pierce of Manhattan, a son. Clay A. Pierce had never met President Coolidge. The Pierce heirs are anxious to sell the place. The Coolidge occupancy, brought about by onetime (1918-27) Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot, of Wisconsin, will probably not lower the obtainable price...
About 29 miles away (northwest) is Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will...
While a wind from the Lake blew little spirals of grey dust across the clay courts of the Chicago Town and Tennis Club William Tatem Tilden II served balls that traveled like gunshots toward a little figure hunched far back of the opposite baseline. The crashing serves generally came back gently, accurately; the little figure, Tamio Abe, champion of Japan, moved quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults...