Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremen to mingle and study each other's methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number of 12.000 German toilers clear around to Tokyo in 1940 just to cheer German athletes in the Olympic Games. Announced Cianetti & Ley: "Our two labor fronts have agreed to consult each other...
...Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass stop and weep and burn candles...
...follow his rival's lead-aware that, if the longer boat did not live up to expectations, the U. S. would still have Rainbow to fall back on for a defender. Before work began on Ranger-built up to the 87-ft. waterline limit-a tiny model was raced against a miniature Endeavour I, proved much faster. After Ranger was launched, she ran into bad luck promptly. Her duralumin mast snapped while she was being towed to Bristol, R. I. for fitting out (TIME, May 24). As soon as she started to race, her bad luck ceased...
...public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt was at least beginning to wish a plague on ''both houses...
...gone upstairs to borrow something to read from one of the other girls. In a detective magazine she had seen a picture of 29-year-old Robert Irwin, former insane asylum inmate, sculptor of sorts, wanted in Manhattan for the horrible Easter Sunday murders of the beauteous artists' model Veronica Gedeon. her mother and a man lodger. "Why that looks like our Bob!" she exclaimed. She showed the picture to the other girl who agreed on the resemblance. Friday night she would show it to Bob. It would amuse...