Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue-spectacled Dictator listened to flattering, impassioned pleadings. At length he relented, partially. No, he would never be President again, not he, but he would remain Commander-in-Chief of the Army...
...interested last week in hearing about Donna Rachele Mussolini, whose condition was announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...shingling, the Morgan House would appear to be a model dwelling...
When asked what he thought of model League of Nations assemblies such as are being planned for Harvard, he said. "I think they are very good. There seems to be an epidemic of these assemblies just at this time. They are cropping up all over the United States...
...Herbert Ames, who formerly engaged himself in helping college students organize similar assemblies was the next speaker. He mentioned the model League of Nations conference held at Mount Holyoke College last week...