Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more architecture than a piano is music" was a model of a queer pearshaped house hung on a pole, exhibited in Manhattan for the first time last week. It was the latest development of Richard Buckminster Fuller's famed "dymaxion house" (from "dynamics" and "maximum service...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat...
Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
Shredded Wheat For 35 years after a dyspeptic lawyer named Henry D. Perky saw another dyspeptic eating cooked whole wheat and helped himself to the idea, the course of Shredded Wheat Co. was profitable and untroubled. Many a visitor to Niagara Falls was shown through the model bakery by Shredded Wheat's Miss Blumreich and went home to add more dollars to the profits of Lawyer Perky's successors. In 1928 National Biscuit Co. bought Shredded Wheat, threw its huge organization into an effort to sell even more shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast Food Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg...
...would be well for sleuths everywhere to model themselves on Detective Charlie Chan. Like all storybook operatives, he avoids catch-as-catch-can methods, has apparently never heard of the third degree. More than this, he exhibits an oriental courtesy that is only a shade less elaborate than his oriental proverbs. Sample: "Even a blind man, if he has been over the road before, may point out the way.'' This time Author Biggers. whose books make better cinemas than most murder stories, has Detective Chan present at a lugubrious houseparty. Present also are four ex-husbands of an egocentric diva...