Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delta Upsilon from Northwestern. Born in Chicago of Swedish parents, raised in Decatur, he was a talented ventriloquist, magician and odd-jobs-man before he enrolled in the speech department. At Northwestern he scraped up $35 to have Charlie McCarthy made by a wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture earnings this year should total over...
...down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared...
...first masterpiece, Dante and Vergil, which was exhibited when he was 24, was described by his master as "Rubens chastened." Beginning his journal in that year, Delacroix scribbled down a daily medley of ambitions, resolves, despairs, descriptions of his casual or palpitant love affairs which would sound like the model diary of a Young Romantic Genius were it not for an extraordinary vein of hardheaded observation...
...Ford is not an A. M. A. member and would therefore (according to custom) get inferior space at the Automobile Show proper. This week his debutante was on view on upper Broadway with enough changes to startle all comers. For the first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille in a pronounced...
Graham has been dressed up more radically than any other 1938 model, with fenders and radiator grille both showing a pronounced forward rake, headlights faired into the front of the fenders. Doors are extrawide. Dashboard has a tacho-speedometer, showing r.p.m. as well as m.p.h. Optional is a gearshift lever running out from beneath the dash...