Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire collection is hung under two general placards, Imaginary and Real. In the first row, all of them caricatures, hang sundry types of mankind which it has been Mr. Boyd's fortune to encounter or divine-Aesthete: Model 1924, A Literary Lady, A Literary Enthusiast, A Critic, A Liberal, A Synthetic Gael, The second row is subplacarded Impressions-brief sketches of Cabell, Hergesheimer, G. B. Shaw and others; and Close-Ups -the big pieces of the exhibit, presenting among others George Jean Nathan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Moore and Mr. Boyd's countrymen -Yeats, Stephens and George...
...plan for the Dictionary originated two years ago in the Council of Learned Societies. A committee under Dr. John F. Jameson of the Carnegie Institution (Washington, D.C.) laid out the work, suggesting the British Dictionary as a model and recommending that all articles be the fruit of fresh work by specially qualified writers. It was "hoped and believed" that the work would "stand upon a unique level of authority, scholarship and literary quality...
Over 100 people attended the first lecture on the physics of music by Professor Saunders in Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon. Professor Saunders demonstrated a number of kinds of vibrations with his experimental apparatus in discussing the subject of "Vibrations". He showed a model of the action of the hammer in a piano and declared that anyone could duplicate the tones of Rachmaninoff or Paderewski if he only was able to press on the keys with the right amount of strength. The subject of his next lecture on Wednesday will be "Waves...
...tendency for states to follow the Federal model in income tax and to set up high inheritance taxes is increasing. Some states, such as Ohio and Virginia, have gone far enough to induce wealthy people to move to less exacting commonwealths. Florida, going to the opposite extreme, is putting out a "Welcome" sign for these people*. Already numbers of them are there. Doubtless more will go, seeking good treatment in a taxing world...
...capitalist, investing all he had in rubber balloons, which he hawked about the streets. He and Victorine looked upon Central Australia as the only place where happiness might await them. On her recovery, the young wife, abetted by Michael Mont, went surreptitiously to work as an artist's model-not infrequently in the "altogether"-to earn passage money. Accidentally, old Bicket came upon her picture in an exhibition, and her secret was out. Followed recriminations, the man crazed with horror at her shamelessness. But a final confession of his own thefts for her brought them together again...