Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would bid for the farm vote against the bids hastily and simultaneously made last week by the New Deal. Applause was more frequent than in most Landon speeches. When he said of the New Deal farm program, "like the automobile manufacturers, the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year," he got laughter as well as cheers. Next day he lunched with State GOP Chairman Carl Cook, 300 newspaper editors and 99 farmers, dined that evening with Cartoonist "Ding" Darling...
...Barrel Show" to tour the city and Eastern college campuses. Doing their bit in the current GOP campaign to persuade the nation that Franklin Roosevelt is somehow to blame for local, municipal, county and State as well as Federal taxes, a young man and three professional women models appear in garments from which parts of sleeves, skirts, crowns and toes have been scissored. A young woman dressed in cap & gown displays explanatory placards bearing such legends as: "You Pay $10 for Lounging Pajamas of which $1.98 goes for Taxes," "Hidden Taxes, like a Thief in the Night, steal the Wealth...
...absentmindedly squeezed two sausage-shaped rolls of clay in her hand, was amazed to find that the pressure of her fingers had accidentally formed two upright figures, embracing. Said Rodin: "This is one of those accidents which one must catch and transform into science. You will keep this and model this group one-half life-size and cut it in marble - but before you do this you must study for five years." Five years later Malvina Hoffman finished her statue, called it Column of Life...
...Model for the Field Museum's typical Nordic male was a professional from Brooklyn, N. Y. Commended on his perfect muscular development, he replied: "I've won all the cups they offer for the best body proportions . . . so I decided to make a book of the best photographs that have been taken of me. Now the book has such a sale I don't have to work any more. . . . The girls call me 'God's Gift to Women...
Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...