Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still fresh and cheerful last week in the Loop was news issued a few days before from Northern Trust Co., long a model of conservatism among the five large Loop institutions. Northern Trust announced payment of its regular quarterly dividend of $4.50, thus maintaining its $18 annual rate (raised two years ago from $12). It was the only Loop bank failing to cut its dividend rate...
Little known outside their profession are the master creators of bathroom fixtures. Best known is Standard's George Sakier, a tall, dark, sardonic bachelor with long tapering hands, who was educated to be a mechanical engineer. He creates five new model bathrooms every six months for private exhibition to architects, decorators, plumbers. He designs Fostoria glassware too, invented the square-bottomed glass. He designed King Prajad-hipok's empty neoclassic bathtub...
...positive that he could open the chests. Declared he: "There isn't a lock made that hasn't its weak point." In his Manhattan shop, whose basement is the Grand Lodge Room of his A. A. M. L., he has a million keys, thousands of locks, a model airplane built entirely of lock parts and keys. The airplane's radio and engine function. Master Courtney declares that he can fit a key to any motor car if he has the manufacturer's number and if he is sure that the applicant for a key is honest...
Author Francis Stuart, 29, is the very model of modern Irish patriot-litterateur. His family, Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam...
...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...