Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freemasonry is by far the biggest, oldest and most important of the numerous orders, and the model for most of them. It has been suspiciously peered at and often "exposed." Actually, although Masonry's ritual is private, it contains no dreadful secrets. Its symbolism is commonplace (e.g., the trowel cements men in brotherly love; the white lambskin apron is for innocence). Its ceremonies are based on biblical stories. The legend of the slaying of Hiram Abif, one of the builders of Solomon's Temple, is the background of much of the ritual. The world of Hiram Abif...
...after serving 9½ years in prison, Lucky was deported to Italy. There, except for one abortive attempt.to reenter the U.S. by way of Cuba, he lived according to his idea of a model citizen. In one of Rome's fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky...
...airport, Nehru refused a closed car, chose an open model in which, standing erect all the way, he rode through eight miles of churning crowds. In the Shambazaar district, a group of youths shouted, "Traitor Nehru," and threw shoes at him, the ultimate Indian insult...
...just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...
...Statue of Liberty (in 200-odd cases) to the U.S. The plot concerns a circulation war over the statue between Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. World and James Gordon Bennett's N.Y. Herald. A Herald photographer brings over from Paris the girl who was Sculptor Bartholdi's model for the statue-only it turns out that she wasn't. The customary hocus-pocus leads to the customary happy ending...