Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the god of football reform has grown bloated, frenzied, and irrational it is not unpleasant to make a pilgrimage to his defeated deity--the gargantuan idol with feet of clay. Thus an October afternoon spent witnessing an old and popular sport is an effective antidote to an over-dose of over-emphasis; illusions concerning the importance of football games have been partially removed and the result is that the logical attitude towards the game--that of sanity, that which minimizes both defeats and victories--is once more practicable. Saturday afternoons are seen in a more normal light: as occasions...
Married. Congressman Clay Stone Briggs, of Texas, to Mrs. Newell B. Woodworth; near Syracuse...
...Herrick, no teetotaler, may have visited the 29-foot bar, danced in the 1,000 square foot ballroom by Sue et Mare, or shot at clay rabbits in the shooting gallery...
...cover o'er its hideous clay...
Thus one of the least discussed (in U. S. history textbooks) issues of the War of 1812 was the movement (advocated by Henry Clay and other U. S. fire-eaters) for the annexation of Canada. During the war, however, the U. S. Canadian operations were a dismal failure, relieved chiefly by Perry's famed "We have met the enemy and they are ours" victory on Lake Erie...