Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago the Institute was humming along nicely with 150 pupils when Sergeant York abruptly asked the Board of Education to remove the Institute's principal, Henry Clay Brier. In Fentress County a bloodless feud instantly was declared. Yorkites darkly accused Principal Brier of misconduct. Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother. When the trouble came to a head fortnight ago, the Board met, accepted the resignations of both Founder York-who at the same time declined the Prohibition Party's Vice Presidential nomination...
...legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately for herself, Adria fell in love with...
...Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took...
...Jorge Ubico, to President Roosevelt for a multilateral adherence by American nations to the Monroe Doctrine is striking evidence that the countries of the Western Hemisphere are moving toward an understanding with the United States, more cordial and genuine that at any time since, perhaps, the days of Henry Clay in the 1820's. Ever since the Mexican War of 1848 they have developed a hatred and distrust for the United States which is not only sullen, but understandable. Sullen in that our very size and power have precluded any effective reprisals on their part; and understandable by the very...
...that Pacific island was outraged by Artist Gauguin's habit of pasting obscene postcards on his bedroom door, of insisting on public recognition of his native mistresses. In constant trouble with French officials and the police, he moved finally to the Marquesas Islands, built and worshipped a clay idol of his own designing, died, half-blind...