Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide that the painting outweighs the crime...
...most explosive subjects in Congress is postwar universal military training. But last week the House Committee on Postwar Military Policy put into the debate a document which was a model of temperate, careful thought...
...perhaps in its 51 amphibious landings (on two dozen islands) since Dec. 26, when MacArthur declared the Leyte campaign strategically closed and turned over the mop-up (which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...
Harry S. Truman's office in the White House, gadget-poor by Roosevelt standards, grew richer by one plane model (of the presidential C-54), one gilded horseshoe (over the main door...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...