Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were polished crimson, a Continental touch that many critics felt to be un-British...
Allied's third big objective, outlined at the convention, is to strike at the "big boys" through legislation to tax theatre chains just as chain groceries are now taxed in Louisiana (TIME, May 31). A model tax bill was presented basing the tax on the number of seats. Above 500 the tax would be 5? a seat, above 1,000 10? a seat, etc., etc. If adopted, such legislation would hurt many members of the Allied States Association,, but, said Al Steffes last week, "big independent chains should be curbed...
...poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age in which so much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying so rich a cargo and bringing it safely to port...
...gust tunnel is important because all airplanes experience their maximum loads when they encounter sudden gusts or "bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
Crooner Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee was reported engaged to Valene Woodward, brunette model of Apple Creek, Ohio. In Manhattan exploded she: "It's terrible, it's wicked, it's ridiculous. ... I must have some terrible enemies, to spread stories like that...