Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
...thus indulged young George Lott in the finals of the Clay Court championship (TIME, July 27). Last week in the Illinois State tournament at the Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, Ill., he mocked Harvey Snodgrass, No. 6 on the ranking list, in the same fashion, permitting him to come within two points of winning. Score...
They would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...
...straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that Tilden threw down the balls...
They would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...