Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing. Plot is forgotten, the Christmas tree is spangled with dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties, three of which stand out: Reginald Gardiner as a park policeman leading an invisible orchestra; Barnett Parker as a sissy floorwalker demonstrating a model home; a ballroom dance number by Georges & Jama. Best songs: Rap, Tap On Wood by Powell, Easy to Love by Powell & Stewart, I've Got You Under My Skin by Virginia Bruce...
Ward's will sell a good human skeleton for $105. The company sends out catalogs to 20,000 select institutional and personal customers. Current lists show that a specimen board of 50 insect pests can be had for $12, a model of a Neanderthal skull or $2.50, a series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia...
...Santa Claus are to be banned in holiday liquor advertising in no less than 30 States. Research on this question was done by Ethel Hubler, editor-publisher of a Los Angeles Prohibition paper called the National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered, is Iowa which permits no liquor display or advertising of any kind. Only State whose board actually favors linking Santa Caus with liquor is New York. There authorities declared that the patron of Christmas is "not actually a saint, but a character of fiction, not a Biblical character...
First was a proposal for a retailing "NRA" founded on state instead of Federal statutes. At the next Dry Goods convention in January the general membership will be asked to approve a program calling for support in state legislatures of model laws covering wages, hours, child labor, deceptive advertising, misleading labeling and price cutting. All this looked like a smart attempt to head off Federal legislation in the next Congress. Ground for this suspicion was broadened last week when the Dry Goods Association belatedly announced that it had quit the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...waistcoat for the season is the single breasted model with square cut collar. White corded effects are the only proper vests to wear with Tails. Brocades and other fancy materials being definitely wrong...