Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the uncomfortable little flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their eyes last week when Maman came home...
...complicity in the eternal ramifications of the Stavisky case (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.), none attracted greater sympathy than Arlette Stavisky, because of her beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of man to give his dress model wife any inkling of his real business activities. For 14 months she stayed in the women's prison of La Petite Roquette, awaiting trial. From time to time she was hauled out for questioning. Every one of her pleas for release was promptly refused. Last week French authorities decided...
...Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress again took up the matter. This time the Senate Committee on Patents (Hiram Johnson, chairman) cagily asked for a model...
...minimum last autumn. Independent front wheel springing was taken off the Plymouth, saving perhaps as much as $10 per car. A simpler ventilating system saved another $2 or $3 per unit. With none of the plant upheaval or unbudgeted expenses that always accompany the introduction of a radical new model, Chrysler got off to a flying start...
...Club," he said, "will seek to develop informal parliamentary debate on current political issues. We hope to have not only only Liberal and Radical groups represented in the Club, but also Conservative opinion so that all the various interests in the University may express their views. The model for such a forum may be found in the Yale Political Union. The Club will continue its policy of having outside speakers and forming study groups...