Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seized by the emulatory passion which has resulted in the cropping up here and there, mostly here, of a Model League of Nations, a Model Constitutional Convention, a Model Supreme Court, a Model Congress, a Model Parliament, and others, the small beginnings of what may, in time, become a great institution, the Model Yard Concert...
Died. Paul Chabas, 68, French portraitist who painted the famed September Morn; after long illness; in Paris. The model, who for two summers (1910-1911) stood ankle deep in chilly Lake Annecy while he painted slowly and meticulously, is now the wife of a French industrialist whose name he has kept a secret. Said Painter Chabas, who only last month began "involuntary retirement": "Although several fortunes have been made from my picture, nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...
...last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...
...events on the program consisted of firing at a pendulum target, out-lining an 'H', puncturing a poised beer can so as to let as much of the liquid as possible escape, and the grand duel tourney. In this event, won by Read, each man shoots at a paper model of his opponent, with the first to pierce his foe's heart declared the winner...
Engagement Broken. Between Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 34, famed onetime G-Man who now practices law in San Francisco; and beauteous Janice ("Toots") Jarratt, cinemactress, onetime Lucky Strike model, "Sweetheart of the Texas Centennial"; in San Antonio, Tex., three days before the wedding date. For weeks San Antonio had been titillated by Janice Jarratt's talk of the 3,000 invitations she had broadcast over the country, of the cinema celebrities who might attend, of her plans to have the wedding photographed for the newsreels. After a gay round of pre-nuptial parties at which ex-G-Man Purvis...