Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fernande Olivier, a model who lived with him then and for the next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...
...warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
...confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare with his model conduct, Swindler Hatry walked free...
Then Franklin Roosevelt, who had received a warning from Harry Bridges, spoke up at press conference. He had learned that France needed U. S. planes. He saw no reason why France shouldn't get the newest types, although practice has been not to permit manufacturers to sell any model of war plane to a foreign country until six months after sale to the U. S. Army has been made. The President reasoned that French orders would set U. S. factories in motion, make them readier to fill domestic orders. Having talked it over with his Cabinet, he had enabled...
...John Garfield), a middleweight prize fighter suspected of murder, of which he is innocent rather by good luck than good management, runs away to an Arizona date farm, where he encounters Gloria Dickson and the Dead End kids. Result: he is transformed from a mean-tempered hooligan into a model of good behavior...