Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of 1824, the vote of the states was so split that Andrew Jackson got 99 electoral votes, J. Q. Adams 84, William H. Crawford 41, and Henry Clay 37. Since no one had a majority, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives to choose among the three leaders. Clay turned his influence to Adams, who was then elected on the first ballot...
...State highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...
...grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
...CRIMSON has reason to be sad. Yet, after all, as Shakespeare aptly rimed-"Imperial Caesar dead and turned to clay can't stop a hole to keep the wind away". Another will undoubtedly take the place so long maintained by the followers of the Ibis. Indeed, the communication in this column is greatly at variance with the opinion of the CRIMSON in the matter. Though well able to cooperate with the Advocate in financing the bankrupt publication, the CRIMSON fears that any such move will but add to Lampie's already over heavy lead of debts. And it is against...