Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
...Theatres. Winfield Sheehan said: "The war is over and we are back in the amusement business." And Fox Film announced a 1930-31 production schedule of 52 feature pictures on which $22,000,000 would be spent. The new Fox picture program, temporarily eclipsed by corporate wrangles, included Common Clay, Alcatraz (in which Cinema-horse Rex will play the lead), Are You There? (with Beatrice Lillie), Women of All Nations (with Victor McLaglen) and a comedy by Rube Goldberg, famed cartoonist. With Fox Film and Fox Theatres again amusement enterprises instead of corporate bodies threatened with dismemberment by warring factions...
...Round-faced, left-handed John Doeg, No. 3 ranking U. S. tennis player: the Southeastern championship in St. Augustine, beating J. Gilbert Hall in an exciting match on clay courts after Hall had him match-point. A few days later Doeg lost a local tournament finals match to George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago...
...crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes as a trapshooter catches a clay pigeon; he reached down, took hold of the rope, pulled this way and that for quick turns; he pressed both gloves against his own stomach like a waiter making a bow, then flashed them up in furious rataplans to Black Bill's stomach and head. He won the championship...
...cannot be suspended, for a well-established precedent rules that each brick must be placed firmly on the top of another. It cannot be placed on probation, because one small laugh would bring down the house. From the moment when it enters the kiln as an amorphous piece of clay with possibilities, a brick is doomed to be fired. It is thus poetic justice that decrees that its career should be ended by a process known as "burning under...