Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nasty insinuations against Candidate Herbert Hoover sped like wasps, last week, to buzz in a secluded and exotic Chinese garden in the village of Tongka, not far from Canton. The lord of the garden and of the village-a model village-is the venerable Tang Shao-yi, perhaps the last great statesman of the fallen Manchu Regime to survive in dignity and honor. Round his placid head the nasty rumors and insinuations buzzed. Soon...
...because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general, Honest John Farmer could be said to favor it. Hence the politics in Congress...
Significance. Thus in a series of excessively droning monologues Lowell Schmaltz gives himself away to inconceivably long-suffering audiences as a self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh...
...Four boys from Michigan went to the White House-Abrain Abgarian, Jack Loughner, Charles Dybvig, William Chaffee. They were holders of indoor and outdoor records for model airplane flying. Representatives Clancy and McLeod introduced them to President Coolidge, who went with them to the lawn and watched them fly their toys. Two of the planes crashed in a tall poplar tree, stuck there...
...April seventh the League of Nations model Assembly at Amherst, representing 20 New England colleges, endorsed the recent Russian proposal for immediate and complete disarmament. The 225 delegates, voting by nations as in the League Assembly at Geneva, supported the Russian resolution by the close vote of 29 to 26. In addition, they endorsed by large majorities the resolutions for disarmament and tariff reduction which have been introduced at Geneva. Sir Herbert Ames and Manley O. Hudson addressed the gathering and plans were laid for another assembly next year...