Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrious roster, that of the Speakers of the House of Representatives, although only one of them ever attained to the Presidency.* There were Henry Clay, James G. Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, Thomas B. Reed, Joseph G. Cannon, Champ Clark. The latest speaker, now Senator Gillett, an able and fair man, had not the reputation that adheres to the fire-eaters of an earlier day. For that matter, the Speakership itself does not now enjoy the reputation that it once had. But it is still a high place in the eyes of the country and it still can invoke a bitter...
...Author of: The Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak...
...disposition of parties in the Chamber of Deputies, M, Herriot has probably the best chance of any Minister of keping a Government in power-and his chances are not too good. But, as he retains the confidence of foreign Powers, particularly Britain, with whom relations grow more cor dial clay by day, his weakness in domestic matters is to a large extent offset; and he might well, despite contrary statements, be expected to survive in office a while longer, were it not for his illness...
Lass O' Laughter. Flora Le Breton, London actress, has arrived in a comedy that is a mixture of Bertha M. Clay* and lemon meringue pie. She starts as a slavey, advances via an inheritance to the lordly Maxwell Towers, marries the glistening young Earl. So oldfashioned, obvious and generally fallible is the piece that there remain only the efforts of Miss Le Breton for discourse. She is called "the Mary Pickford of England." Many cinema potentates were in the initial audience to judge her values. She turned out to be a small and somewhat fluffy blonde, abounding in energy...
...indeed she was-she perfectly described the setting for one of the bloodiest trials of history. Great people walk absently through her pages. Emerson, whose soul she compares to a glass of water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell Lowell, "brilli- ant, witty, gay"; Henry Clay uttering his battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott, advised to drink milk to make his transcendentalism less foggy; farmers, slave holders, Abolitionists, preachers, pale brides, dark chivalrous gentlemen, all brought strangely back in the letters of this little...