Word: modell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great fun had Baltimore wits last week as. after three weeks of rain, a crew of WPA workers resumed digging and scraping a desolate spot in Herring Run Park, hard by the city incinerator. News had got round that this project, a model yacht basin costing $40,000, of which the city was putting up $10,000, also included a polo field, WPA's first concession to the most luxurious U. S. sport...
Indignant Secretary Stuart McElroy of the Baltimore Model Yacht Club then began writing to the papers, explaining that the model yacht basin would cost at least three-quarters of the $40,000. Demanded Mr. McElroy: "Whether the $10,000 polo field is a worthy project or not remains to be seen, but who can dispute the worthiness of a model yacht basin...
...were 600 career men of Labor. Mostly they were gentlemen toilers who had worked up to union office and comfortable expense accounts. Plain men seated along pine tables, they daily went through the conventional motions indicated by their President William Green, a plain man whose career had been a model of its kind. At evening the placid delegates rejoined their wives, retired to the movies or enjoyed simple sociability in hotel rooms. A minority frequented the convention's one play spot, the roof of the Rice Hotel...
...building a skyscraper bridge out of rope vines. They also went on an elephant hunt without failing to photograph the finish, and escaped from a forest fire which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures of its type. In addition, Explorer Denis pickled his adventures in some of the most beautiful landscape photography ever recorded on film, used native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without...
...time the War was over Wally had become one of the best-known and most popular A. E. F. veterans. To the delight of his buddies, this very model of a worthless soldier was awarded a medal of the Purple Heart on special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear...