Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Rome last week one Guarino Roscioli, young sculptor, chiseled with Renaissance fever on a marble bust of and for Pope Pius XI. The commission was a result of His Holiness' good nature. He had seen a passable clay model which Sculptor Roscioli had made solely from photographs, had summoned the young man to correct some lineaments from a personal sitting...
...means high. Kaolin, the white clay used in medicine and porcelain is Chinese for high hill, where the clay is found...
Short-legged runners often have trouble getting started. A poor start was what beat Eddie Tolan of Michigan, holder of the official world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.) in the intercollegiate championships at Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B. C., Tolan tensed his little black body beside the big white frames of George Simpson (Ohio State) and Percy Williams of Canada, the Olympic champion. When the gun cracked it was Tolan who sprang away fastest. He led all the way to the tape, 100 metres away, arriving there...
Covered by a wet cloth at night, patted, scraped and moulded by day, a huge mass of modeler's clay on a draughting table in the offices of Todd, Robertson & Todd, Manhattan engineers, was slowly taking form last week as the preliminary sketch model of a gigantic group of buildings. Reporters realizing that this mass of clay will soon evolve into a $250,000,000 development, probably the largest, most important single architectural project ever undertaken in New York, clamored for latest details...
...immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard Oil Co. of New York-the U. S. acquired a collection of the works of William Shakespeare "not even surpassed by the British Museum," also an imposing museum for it in Washington, D. C., near the national Capitol, also...