Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theron F. Pierce, presidential landlords, sailed on the Mauretania to remain until the President and Mrs. Coolidge. model tenants, leave Brule, Wis., and return to the White House...
...delivered by 12 "aircraft" spark plugs making 360 flashes per second, at the big model's top speed (80 m.p.h...
Henry Ford emerged from a 1928 model Ford sedan to browse in the antique shop of Mrs. L. A. Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...
Ildebrando Pizzetti was born in Parma and he has honored it before this in, for example, his Ildebrando da Parma. He studied at the Conservatory of Parma for six years, specializing in the model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous...
...lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages to wander through the entire book without demonstrating any personality whatever...