Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British shopkeepers who are privileged to style themselves "purveyors by Appointment to His Majesty the King" clubbed together and presented to the late King George a $250,000 model house in Surrey. The United Press learned this week that King Edward has offered this house, which has never been occupied, to Mrs. Simpson in case she would like to use it as her country place. Dignitaries received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear...
...fellows have refused to come and made extravagant excuses, but last week Dictator Chiang could boast that every province in China had answered his call. Notably the famed but for several years retired "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang showed up. together with the Big Three of North China : the "Model Governor" of Shansi, General Yen Hsi-shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary governor produced by unpredictable China, General Han Fu-chu of Shantung.* They were said by Nanking officials to have promised the Dictator they would stand...
...artist. The idea for the composition came to him while watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn...
...depressed by an English January, traveled to the Sudan by air, to the province of Bahr el Ghazal, commonly called "the Bog." His book is memorable for its 48 excellent photographs and for his direct writing about the ways of African whites and native women, about the two handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom...
Constance Bennett, a woman of experience, works as a model in a dress shop by day, and by night she exercises all the powers she possesses in securing Paul Lucas for a rich husband. Loretta Young, supposedly a simple country girl, has arrived in the great metropolis to become independent of men and to set herself up as the proud possessor of a hat shop. Janet Gaynor wants a man she can take care of plus a home and some children. Irrevocably lost among the three of them with their love affairs of which only one is successful, the audience...