Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing of the form from the fundamental block") has caused many a contemporary to imitate...
...Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys...
...mind past cure; strained basket ribs, and pale clay mouth opening and closing...
...pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such a man by a city clerk awaiting every morning a circular letter or his master's voice out of a loud speaker's horn? God forbid...
...Founder Rockefeller, onetime wife of Trustee Harold Fowler McCormick) and her bosom socialite friend Mrs. Waller Borden; onetime Governor & Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden; Senator & Mrs. Charles Samuel Deneen; Editorial Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs the Ravinia Opera); Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank (she, a potent socialite Democrat); Mrs. Bertha Baur (socialite Republican); Mr. and Mrs. Arch Wilkinson Shaw...