Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came a great day in the life of George Grey Barnard. The full scale plaster model of his tremendous peace arch was completed. Sculptor Barnard scraped most of the plaster from his hands, opened his studio doors and invited the world to enter and admire...
...actually given false standards by the Ph.D. training, have at least gotten nothing from it but a mass of unleavened erudition. It is not only an unreasonable and exacting anachronism in itself, but a drag on all American education. And Harvard's School is a model for the whole system...
There is no attempt, stylistically, to re-echo the taut and simple brutalities of Hemingway; nor is there nay imitation of Dos Passos' inchoate complexity. Mr. Hoffman is not be obvious disciple of anybody who is being toasted by the aesthetes, 1933 model. His innovation in method places him in Proust's debt, if in anybody's, since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there...
Policeman Mulrooney's "model" code: Bars. Wine and hard liquor may be served only at tables in restaurants. Since last April, beer has been served at bars in restaurants (reason: so that poor men need not tip waiters) and still may be. But if acustomer wants another kind of drink he must sit down. He does not have to order food, but the restaurant, hotel or club has to satisfy the liquor board that its primary business is not selling drinks...
...riot. Royalists, always on the qui vive for a disturbance, attacked it for reasons of their own. His was not the only well-known Parisian name connected with Le Sang d'un Poet. Its heroine was Lee Miller, famed both as a photographer and as a model, whom Cocteau had selected for the rôle. Cocteau's backer was the Vicomte de Noailles, who allowed his house to be used for sets and invited his socialite friends to take minor rôles. Le Sang d'un Poet, because it followed another de Noailles production which...