Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ajax Cassidy (Peter Donald) is a tuberculous, growler-rushing, clay-pipe Irishman who thinks he is "not long for this worrld." He is also the newest and least-developed of Fred's characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...
...option to buy Lone Star for $7,500,000 (with no initial down payment), and three of the Oklahoma mines. But WAA insisted on additional operating capital of $1,000,000, to be raised within ten days. So Carpenter & friends organized a financial posse, struck out for the red clay hills around Daingerfield. At crossroad gatherings and town rallies, they sold thousands of shares of stock, got some $100,000 from Longview (pop. 13,758) alone...
Found: Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay's limousine; in a Czechoslovakian border village; two weeks after it was stolen from a Berlin A.M.G. parking lot. The culprits, vowed police, would be apprehended any minute...
...conference came to close grips with Germany's economic future, which is the real key to success or failure, General Lucius Clay moved in from Berlin to pass Marshall more ammunition...
...Lucius D. Clay, newly-appointed dynamic Commander of American forces in Europe, arrived today in Moscow from Berlin at 2:45 P.M. (6:45 A.M. E.S.T.) today to strengthen Marshall's hands in the vital talks...