Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sometimes resented the sight of a stranger picking up nuggets of gold in our fields. But the bald from Oberammorgau is not coming entirely to take. It will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes...
...more suggestive of a butterfly or moth. Yet there is no telling what secret ammunition may have been brought in; already there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously...
...several years Mr. J. W. Craig '75 offered the prize annually. Then for two years Mr. Oliver Morosco made the offer, being succeeded last year by the Belmont Theatre. Among the prize-winning plays in the past have been "Believe Me, Xantippe," by Mr. J. Frederick Ballard '11; "Common Clay," by Mr. Cleves Kincaid; "Mama's Affair," by Miss Rachel Barton Butler; and "You and I," by Mr. Philip Barry, which was produced in New York on February 19, last...
ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...
Rodolph Valentino, subsidized by the company that manufactures Mineralava Beauty Clay and chaperoned by his wife, is touring the country " in search of the girl with the most radiant complexion...