Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like a map of No-Man's-Land minus the compassion which even that scene would evoke. An earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened to be in progress...
...construction of his pilot seat to the position of a hen's egg contained within an ostrich egg. If the ostrich egg were dropped and smashed, he said, the hen's egg would remain intact. He once dropped a sheep and six eggs safely from 500 feet in a model of his ship (TIME, Dec. 14). Several times he tried to make the test himself but could not elude police until last week. Before undertaking his cliff dive he let a motor truck ram Amour with himself inside...
Five hundred dollars will be the list price of the new V8 Ford tudor sedan, it was announced last night. It was learned simultaneously that all models of the new L4 will cost about $50 less than the corresponding eights, a substantial drop from the price of last year's standard model...
...last was the most emphasized at this year's show. A model schoolhouse was erected, complete with desks and elaborate exhibits made by nimble-fingered children. Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin...
Left is the house of "Mr. John Q. Averageman who comes to the city to work every day, who, around his detached house, has a little land on which he grows a tomato and a nasturtium and who faithfully keeps up with the nearly latest model of refrigerator, radio, and Buick...