Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published in English of the literary relations between England and Russia. A further vote of thanks is due the author for having compressed no small amount of recondite facts into a compact volume, written in a clear, readable style of exposition which might well serve as a model for subsequent treatises in comparative literature. Only a person as learned as Dr. Simmons will be able, of course, to measure nicely how much compression has taken place; the general reader's gauge must be the number of suggestions which present themselves here and there...
...anti-aircraft gun, Quakers distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur ("All Armor Plate -No Brains...
...artist even today, was represented by six canvases in the Whitney show. Best of the lot was his picture of the Biglen brothers, famed oarsmen of the 1870's, pulling their double shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were his passion. In 1886 he shocked all Philadelphia...
Nemo disappeared from the comic sections in 1913. This week he appears again in Manhattan and Chicago Hearstpapers, drawn by Son Robert Winsor McCay. At 38, R. Winsor McCay looks much less like the Nemo for which he was a model than like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent...
...been exhibiting with the Salon since 1885, spent by the chilly borders of Lake Annecy in the French Savoie, not far from Switzerland. Whenever the mornings were warm and clear enough, he would go down to the lake shore at 8:30 a. m. with his slender, blonde model. She would strip off her clothes, stand ankle deep in the icy water in a pose that the whole world knows. A slow meticulous worker, Artist Chabas would paint for only 30 minutes, then knock off until the next good morning. When the canvas was finished...