Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some day from a studio in the nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face...
Hooverizer. In 1917, when the Herbert Hoovers and the Roosevelts were good friends in Washington, Mr. Hoover's Food Administration made Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt's household (two adults, five children, ten servants) its model for large families. Mrs. Roosevelt, who turned over to her daughter when she married the account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon...
...drinking until the New York Legislature meets next January to pass permanent laws. Some two dozen other states were formulating their own codes or had already done so, but the White House was known to be hoping that New York's regulations would serve as a model for others...
...seem like a logical supplement to the music. His choreography was banal, his company incompetent. Only in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune did he achieve the unusual. Then, in flesh-colored tights and a leafy wreath, he went through a series of postures which were a model of muscular grace...
...only relevance is the fact that Author Maugham thought up these stories while Ah King was his servant. Some of them: A married woman and her lover, about to become illegitimate parents, kill the husband, marry and live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary...