Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Papal State. Since the Austrian Chancellor had been a model of piety to all his country, seeking God's guidance in prayer before every important decision, the Supreme Pontiff was quick to say a special mass for Engelbert Dollfuss, denounced his "unspeakable murder" and telegraphed Austrian President Miklas...
Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, Oklahoma badman and bank robber. Born in Georgia, raised in the Ozarks, Floyd in 1925 began a model training for crime: five years in the Missouri Penitentiary for highway robbery. Later he was largely responsible for the fact that Oklahoma country banks at that time paid the highest robbery insurance rate in the country. In one year he killed two Government informers in Kansas City, a Federal agent, a policeman. Last year he was spotted as the man who led the Kansas City massacre in Union Station during which four officers and their prisoner were...
Before she became a cinema star, Madge Evans was a photographer's model. A cinema executive saw her pictured in an advertisement for Fairy Soap, got her a part in The Sign of the Cross. That was in 1914, when she was 5. Star of the picture was William Farnum. Madge Evans became the Shirley Temple of the silent cinema. When she was 10 her career, as such, was over...
Their friends have long poked fun at Brothers Ralph, Herbert and Joseph Pulitzer for spending too much money on their Lady of the Plaza. In the flesh she is curvesome Model Doris Doscher of Whitestone, N. Y. In bronze, across from Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, she is the work of the late Sculptor Karl Bitter and his successor, Isidore Konti. Her name is Abundance...
...couple he takes as his victims are model exemplars. Married seven years, childless, increasingly incompatible, John and Mary agree to separate. He is a pedestrian publisher and works while she, a rising actress, sleeps. Two years after their separation each falls in love with somebody else, both want a divorce to remarry. John goes to a friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife...