Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early twenties Stradivari was still an apprentice in the workshop of Nicolo Amati, whose father and grandfather before him had made fine violins. For some 20 years after he left the workshop, Stradivari continued to imitate Amati's small, yellow-varnished models, then began to experiment with a style of his own. At the age of 56, when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though...
Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures...
...instructive to young lawyers how not to conduct a suit. Serious readers will be fascinated by the exhaustive, well-documented, and clear discussions of the legal posers involved in the Governor's proclamation of martial law and of the nature and power of the State Racing Commission, a model for all quasi-judicial executive bodies whose mush-room growth in the government worries many lawyers. "This bodes some strange cruption to our state," quotes Professor Chafee from Hamlet...
Professor Haring's article on Revolution in Brazil might well be taken as a model by student practitioners in this journal. It manages to be interesting without resorting to the attempts at pungent journalism which are too frequently accepted by the students as necessary to acceptable prose...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...