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...The first thing you may notice as you enter this sprawling warren of dining rooms and bars is the old clay tobacco pipes hanging from every inch of the ceiling....
...“We try to reflect the context,” says gallerist Marc Selwyn, who is particularly enthusiastic about displaying a clay piece by LA artist Kristen Morgin, “Still Life with Woodpecker and Janet Leigh” (2017...
...“The greatest of all human powers is competition” Mr McConnell declared, quoting Henry Clay, his political hero and a Bluegrass state native who served as secretary of state in the 19th century....
...Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Photograph: Clay Benskin...
...It had allowed JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and John D Rockefeller to create a self-reinforcing cycle of economic and political power....
...The renovated 19th-century marani has 120 clay qvevri, each holding two tonnes....
...President Franklin D Roosevelt was such a regular it became known, during his time in office, as the White House of the West....
...Otherwise for mile after mile there was little to see but clay houses, palm trees and the fertile fields whose plump crops nourished so many empires in centuries past....
...Writing in Century magazine in 1888, he expresses contagious relish for this extreme landscape of dry, often spectacularly coloured clay-and-coal soils: “Across their white faces the seams of coal drew sharp...
...Meacham ends his book by reminding us of the esteem in which Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt held Jackson, a sentiment shared by Harry Truman....
...But he preserved an awareness of himself as mortal clay, which seldom failed to move his intimates....
...Roosevelt did propose in 1938 that Alaska might become a homeland for the Jews, but his scheme was voted down in Congress....
...Blaine, Theodore Roosevelt, etc....
...The former boss was forced to hand over millions of dollars worth of documents and artifacts related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - whose biography he wrote - after details emerged about his allegedly secret...
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