Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reproduce in stone every rhythm of the human body became for him almost a monomania. He would have his model throw herself down over and over in different attitudes, any attitudes, and would draw her with fierce, scrawling strokes. How his Man with the Broken Nose was refused by the Salon jury is history; in 1877 he was accused of faking his Age of Bronze-now in the Luxembourg -by taking a mold from the living model. Good people have denounced his works wholesale as "erotic." Academicians have stated that he^ combines a coarse literary mind with an inadequate technique...
Inaugurated last year as a means of bringing the widely scattered students of the Business School more together, it will again serve as directory and year book combined, following in contents and form last year's model...
...model of the great ship hung suspended by wires over the heads of the inquiry officers, while the survivors filed in, were sworn, told their stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from them. It might have been concluded that the ship was wrecked entirely because of the ferocity of the storm, that some of her girders were weak, that some of her safety valves were not working and that one or more of her gas cells burst, or that the temporary failure...
Below the Line. Rin-Tin-Tin is the favorite movie actor of a number of people. Such people will be highly gratified with the latest model. What matters it if the melodrama is wild and foolish? The dog saves the old woman about to be throttled by her wicked son; the dog vanquishes a pack of bloodhounds...
There was a voluptuous and most unscrupulous model among the "guests" Minnie Febber. Unable to seduce Jim, she made a dead set for Mr. Fippany, wealthy now and in his dangerous forties. Jim, always an idler, watched the danger menacing his friends' happiness until it was almost too late. How he acted at the last moment, what he staked, at what odds, and lost, is too finely and poignantly told in the book to repeat here. Suffice it that Jim seems too good to be true and yet is true; and that there is a last chapter, where the Star...