Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...
...successful we can see that his judgment was sound. There was the question of the life or death of Mr. Ford. There was the risk that arises in the peculiar genius of Mr. Ford. No one can anticipate his processes."-Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs & Co. Said Paul M. Clay, vice president of Moody Investment Service: "I'd rather buy genius than material." The Billion. In 1916, Partner John W. Prentiss of Hornblower & Weeks met Henry Ford in Detroit. Said Mr. Ford: "Oh, you are one of those Wall Street guys." Mr. Prentiss offered him a half billion dollars...
...estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures of females, ranging from small children to fully developed women. Even Mr. Browning, who took evident pleasure in the court...
...program of development of the hardy plants outdoors is not so nearly realized. It will take much further labor and effort to prepare the hard clay soil for the separate plant groups. A few beds are in fairly presentable shape, as samples of what should be done, but for the most part the soil is yet hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over...
...schoolmaster, but I am not going to take responsibility for the development of those things in youth which are left undeveloped by the breakdown of other institutions. ... It is easy for teachers to worry too much about the moral status of their pupils. Remember, the clay leaves your hands at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. On its way home many fingers get into that clay. Then at home the parents get their hands into it. Next morning you may not recognize...