Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marie Grosholtz Tussaud had made an institution of her exhibit in London's Baker Street, first permanent home of the collection. Succeeding Tussauds have carried on. The fingers of at least one member of the Tussaud descendants have always been trained to model in clay and wax. The "Mr. John" who died last week was such a craftsman. Like the founder, he ran the establishment efficiently: four hours after Rudolph Hess dropped into Scotland, his correctly costumed effigy was on display at Tussauds. Mr. John leaves the museum to his son, Bernard Tussaud: the waxworks will...
Among those who will thus seek enlightenment from Plato to Marx are Packer Harold Higgins Swift, Department-Storekeeper Hughston Maynard McBain (Marshall Field & Co.), Publisher Marshall Field, Lawyer Clay Judson, Chicago Daily Timesman Richard James Finnegan...
...Suynsun Marshes in California will have good shooting this year-if they can find anything to shoot with. Luckiest hunters of all are U.S. Air Forces pilots along the Alaska Military Highway. To keep their eyes in by skeet shooting, they are well supplied with shells. By switching from clay pigeons to live ducks they will be saving their own skins: duck feathers are used in flying suits...
...Compromiser. No one, in the whole 155-year history of the Speakership, held it in a more difficult time than Sam Rayburn. Some Washington observers have called him "the greatest compromiser since Henry Clay." But Henry Clay compromised on issues; Sam Rayburn works to bring about compromise among factions. His technique is something to watch...
There is a chance, however, that Sam Rayburn may be asked to desert his love, as has many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...