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Most interesting of the four-foot models on view last week was a group of seven showing the history of one hillside at Petersham, Mass. First appeared the primeval forest of 1700: white pines 150 ft. tall tower over the beeches, maples, hemlocks and oaks; only in a clearing caused, perhaps, by an Indian's fire is the weedy undergrowth of modern woods visible...
...takes the average man four minutes to get into a class, and four minutes to get out of it, due to a four-foot narrow stairway that allows passage for but one man at a time each way up and down. Eight minutes out of every hour are therefore spent moving an absurdly short distance of some twenty or thirty fect in a congestion comparable only to a New York subway station in a rush hour...
...four-foot wooden fence! You talk about a hair line...
Inconspicuous, taciturn about his marital affairs, Blue Boy has left a model for many a cinemactor from whom he was protected in life (except for Will Rogers) by a four-foot fence of substantial construction. He never wangled a city deal or produced a strip...
...hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume of Don Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience on the high notes, putting out his hands, palms up, for applause. He is more convincing...