Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fashion, always a "silly and senseless dame," said Boston's 79-year-old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, is "even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...
...Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
Last week the Middle Atlantic "Model Assembly of the League of Nations," an annual assembly of U. S. college students, met at Bucknell University and was embarrassed. Delegate Jerome I. Aron of France (i.e.,Haverford College) summed the situation up in impeccable French, translated by an interpreter with a strong French accent: "Ze League eez an illusion...
...John D. Rockefeller: "He would do me out of a dollar today," then caught himself and added hastily, "that is, if he could do it honestly." McClure's flourished as the articles appeared, went on growing until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned in a body. McClure's never recovered. But Ida Tarbell implies that the staff members never functioned quite so well working for themselves or for less trying editors...
...prides of Hartford, Conn. is Hartford Electric Light Co., nationally known as a model utility. It has no truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...