Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Painter Sir John went to his wife whom he often uses as a model, told her she would have to sit again, painted her with a shawl over her head...
From head to foot this man has upon him the effects of a deep perusal of Gumbel's "Kollege Klothes." He hasn't missed a trick. There is the smart felt, a copy of the Knox model, but you get it for $3.73 instead of $10.00. Just walt till it gets wet (or at least wetter). There is the snap on tie, so trick that you know at a glance only an expert factory girls' fingers could have tied it. But then she might have been his girl; who can tell. The coat and pants have a brother...
...Progressive Republicans, led by boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, amiable son of a fiery father, won all the important nominations-including the Youngest Senator's renomination-except for the Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck, ran a Wet second by some 20,000 votes. A Dry third ran Fred R. Zimmerman, Wisconsin...
...Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward acrobatics, the other toward hysterics...
...Progressives he could offer thatKohler, Wis., is a model community; that he is interested enough in public education to have become a regent of the University of Wisconsin, where one of his four boys was educated (two went to Yale, one to M. I. T.); that it is and has been his desire to provide modern comforts to country people...