Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete system...
...Miss Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins...
Sculptor Rush's use of a female model shocked and outraged Philadelphia Quakers, but they soon forgave him. He was a member of the City Council for 22 years, a founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of its board until his death...
...planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs...
...conduct but when her fourth grandchild was unpatriotically born in Hungary, Sophie was ostentatiously uninterested, even sniffed doubts of its legitimacy. What with Sophie's suspicious enmity and Franz Joseph's fond indulgence, it would have been a miracle if Sisi had turned out to be a model wife and mother. No miracle occurred. Left to her own devices, she smoked (very fast for those days), rode horseback till patient Franzi grumbled: "If only you had never seen a saddle!", exercised and dieted herself into an alarming slimness. And one day she told Franz Joseph she simply...