Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phantom, Paulette Goddard is actually an amiable little brunette (5 ft. 4 in., weight no) who, born and reared in Great Neck, L. I., entered public life at twelve, as a model for children's clothes. At 16, she married Edward James, Broadwayite twice her age, whom she divorced five years later. Paulette Goddard prepared herself for her Hollywood phantom career by appearing as a chorus girl in Rio Rita. Her appearance as co-star in Dramatic School is not quite her first since Modern Times. She also made an effective talkie debut in The Young in Heart...
...first place, Radcliffe girls can't walk," the glamorous model murmured, as she sipped a demi-tasse, priced 25 cents, and got down to fundamentals. "Some of them are good models and some of them are not," she added significantly...
...complaints about House dinners can be made if persons not formally invited are permitted to eat at the regular time, i.e. between five thirty and seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...
There are dozens of other new acquisitions being catalogued and arranged. From Fukien, China, the Museum has obtained a model of a fantastic headdress worn by women in the fields and buried with them when they die. To get an actual headdress of this kind would be almost impossible since the Chinese government new forbids their being worn and those that do remain are highly treasured by the natives...
...protective wall of six-foot-high water tanks surrounding the cyclotron, explained that neutrons flying free as hail around an exhibition room might settle in the tissues of spectators, even render them sterile. The exposition officials hastily retired, and last fortnight they hatched plans to exhibit a model cyclotron with lights and noises in which imaginary projectiles would smash phantom atoms...