Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Symphony used to have a 24-week season under solid old Alfred Hertz. Now it plays for ten weeks and many of its best musicians have taken safer jobs with other orchestras. The San Francisco Opera Company has been held up since Depression as a model to every opera-giving city in the U. S. It has had world-famed singers, this year Lucrezia, Bori, Claudia Muzio, Giovanni Martinelli, Ezio Pinza, Gertrude Kappel, Cyrena Van Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year...
...arena to judge the champion steer. In the ring were four finalists-a Hereford, a Shorthorn, two Anguses. One of the Anguses belonged to Oakleigh Thorne. Mr. Thorne could not forget that no individual had ever won the championship twice, that his entry in the ring, Briarcliff Model, was heavier (1,217 Ib.) than was nowadays popular. Judge Biggar passed his sensitive hands over well-meated ribs, examined shoulders, circled again & again. Finally he pointed to Briarcliff Model. There was applause. By now Farmer Thorne was an upstart Eastern breeder no longer. Technicians talked of "new contributions to animal husbandry...
...days later, as is the custom, Briarcliff Model was auctioned off. Highest bidder: Chicago's Palmer House. Price: $1,573, or $1.30 per Ib., highest since 1930, 5? per Ib. higher than last year...
Publisher Stern likes best his papers' editorial page, which he usually writes himself. His lively political philippics helped to smash Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare last month. In Philadelphia where there is no Hearst and where the stodgy Bulletin has been a model for the city's other journals, the Record got attention by rowdy headlines, pictures of chorus girls, comic strips, proletarian social-advice columns, interlarded with intelligent liberalism...
...when and where and how, consure of minor mannerism should not be caustic; all men put the shoe upon the same foot first year in and year out. It is for this reason if for no other that the sceptical soul feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these columns before; it was remarked that the organization filled definite and justifiable functions. It does not, though many might aver that it did titillate the undergraduate's fancy...