Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that their city contains not only the world's largest university, New York University, but also the world's largest college for women. Hunter. Founded in 1870, Hunter College enrolls 6,249 girls by day, 13,307 more in its evening, summer, extension, high school and model-school divisions.* Last week Hunter was given a new president to succeed Dr. James Michael Kieran who is retiring at 69. Much talk arose when the job went to 45-year-old Dr. Eugene A. Colligan, onetime principal of Boys' High School in Brooklyn and associate superintendent of schools...
THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
Fifty pretty girls paraded in Manhattan before a jury gathered to select New York's 15 most beautiful mannequins to model clothes at the World's Fair. When no decision was reached, someone suggested that the mannequins lift their skirts. Someone shouted, "Hike 'em up!" All the jurors tittered except Robert EcU mond ("Bobby") Jones, famed stage set designer. Said he sternly: "We came to look, not to leer...
...Socialist foxy tricks," said he. "With the disappearance of the Socialist unions, the Social Democratic party will be permanently deprived of the soil in which it lived. . . . I alone will have the full direction of the labor front, which is to be newly constructed." Again carefully following the Mussolini model, Nazification did not stop with the seizure of the unions. At the other end of the economic scale it was announced that the powerful Federation of German Industries had been Nazified too. It was not necessary to send Storm Troopers to call on the tycoons. After a brief conference...
...Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...