Word: doscher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their friends have long poked fun at Brothers Ralph, Herbert and Joseph Pulitzer for spending too much money on their Lady of the Plaza. In the flesh she is curvesome Model Doris Doscher of Whitestone, N. Y. In bronze, across from Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, she is the work of the late Sculptor Karl Bitter and his successor, Isidore Konti. Her name is Abundance...
...Doris Doscher, a model who posed for Sculptor Carl Bitter when he made the statue, wrote to the New York Times: "I want to take this opportunity to offer my thanks to Mr. Pulitzer for enabling me to again stand exalted-and scrubbed-above the grounds on Fifth Avenue, generously spurting precious, clear water-flush, in these times of dried-up prosperity." Thomas Alva Edison announced that he would give no more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked...
Married. Doris Doscher, model of the present U. S. 25¢ pieces, because in the opinion of Government authorities she best represented "the highest type of American womanhood"; and a Dr. H. William Baum, physiotherapist; at the Jewish Institute of Religion in Manhattan...