Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...
...Clay-Eating. Mistresses who, with mystification, have watched their colored maids, newly migrated from the South, gather clay from the back yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
...Name one disease in which the eating of kaolin (clay) is beneficial. (See MEDICINE...
...expedition made a map of the city and was most fortunate in bringing back from there a number of small frescos, a superb Chinese mirror of the T'ang period, some interesting fragments of colored clay sculpture, and many bits of broken pottery which will be of interest for the purpose of study, and perhaps for analysis of clays and glazes...
...Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert Burns, Peter Schuyler, Lillian Russell, William Penn, Judge Gaynor (onetime New York mayor) and many another have had cigars named in their honor...