Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities or nuances. He pays his subject...
...veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears exclusively, great lumps of it. In general, Author McNeile's titles are better than his tales...
...fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder of the first U. S. locomotive, had a Steinway piano...
Overlapping Inheritance Taxes. Henry Clay Frick died in 1919, worth about $145,000,000. Some of his property was in Pennsylvania, some in New York, some in Massachusetts, some in other states. Pennsylvania demanded that the inheritance tax be paid to it on the whole estate, although only some two thirds of the property was in that state. That cost the heirs about $1,000,000 extra?so they went to court contending 1) That Pennsylvania had no right to tax tangible property in other states, 2) that, in computing the value of stocks in corporations of other states...
Stale patterns of the kindergarten executed in raw colors by pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black...