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Word: modelings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, after arranging his pocket 'kerchief, he strode boldly forward, progressing a few yards before the ice gave way. With the nonchalance of a cigarette model, the hero rolled out upon the thin ice and dragged himself to safety, effecting a rather neat self-rescue. On emerging from his polar bath, he remained ashore just long enough to tell the crowd which had gathered that he was a member of the Boston Brownies, the Bay State division of the cult of polar bathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BOSTON BROWNIE" BATHES IN CHARLES FOR RED CROSS SAKE | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

Rembrandt's Self Portrait is one of that Dutchman's few works whose authenticity has never been questioned. In his varying fortunes he used to paint himself either when he was too poor to hire a model or when he wanted to display his sudden riches on canvas. Mr. Mellon's Rembrandt shows the artist when he was not rolling in wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mellon & Madonna | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Fortnight ago Garabed Bishirgian went down to his model farm in Surrey, where he fancies prize pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pepper King | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...correct a flat statement of fact contained in Saturday's CRIMSON. It stated that Harold Danser, Raymond Dennett, Lipman Field, William Salant, Julian Wilhelm and myself "will become emissaries of Hitler when they attend the sessions of the Model League of Nations." This is not the case. We shall represent at MOCK sessions the sovereign state of Germany at a meeting of college students the purpose of which is to learn something about international government by studying the respective points of view of the various nations of the world. WE ARE ABSOLUTELY IN NO SENSE OF THE WORD "EMISSARIES...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trick of the Week | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Note: The CRIMSON is delighted to learn that one can represent "the sovereign state of Germany" today and neglect Hitler at a Model League of Nations session. We are also reassured to learn that the Liberal Club has not hoisted the swastika...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trick of the Week | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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