Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...
Through the office passed a long line of convicts in stripes, to testify for the visiting members of a special legislative committee. The testimony might have made impassive Warden Clay squirm...
...Convicts are put in leg picks-two-foot iron bars locked over an ankle-for trying to escape, for failing to call Warden Clay "Captain," for no reason at all. The picks stay on night...
...students ever colored a canvas or modeled a figure in their civilian days. Said one of them, looking up from a sensitive head modeled in clay: "I've been in the Army six years, and I've had my ups & downs. I was up as high as staff sergeant once. ... I have a hot temper. They thought when I came here that I'd never learn to make anything with my hands but black eyes. [This] is easier on the hands, and more satisfying." Another Dix artist has even refused to leave Ft. Dix on his days...
...over the red clay roads of his 20-mile district, Dr. Newman drives day & night, sometimes with his pretty, brown-eyed wife beside him, delivering the amazingly numerous offspring of his philoprogenitive constituents. (When he tried to enlist in the Army, he was firmly turned down as indispensable where he was.) It is not uncommon for him to deliver three babies in twelve hours...