Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualities that make up a beautiful woman. Last week, as his wife watched with fascination, he casually turned over his breakfast grapefruit, began carving out elliptical parabolic arches which he then carried off to the office to see if they might do as an idea for the office model of T.W.A.'s new terminal at Idlewild...
...around and roll them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza who fled across Ohio River ice, but with no bloodhounds in pursuit. In fact, the bloodhounds are a bit of stage business thought up by the play adapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin and do not exist in Mrs. Stowe's novel...
...sleeve, which he hinted at in the debate when he talked of a new Algeria that would be "neither Moslem state nor an Arab state nor a French province." His idea is to create a highly decentralized Algerian state divided into 25 or so "cantons" on the model of Switzerland. Each would have its own local assembly and local administration. This would allow some, like those around Oran and Algiers, to have European majorities. Over the cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become Vice Premier...
Died. Ada Galsworthy, 89, widow of Britain's Nobel Prizewinning Author John Galsworthy, desultory travel writer (Over the Hills and Far Away) and model for Irene in Galsworthy's monumental trilogy The Forsyte Saga; in London...
...expense, until finally Lady Docker simply had to have some gear to go with it: a gold-plated dress, a mink cape and a mink-trimmed hat. The outfit cost $20,-ooo but, said Lady Docker: "Since I was doing nothing more than acting as a model, I decided to charge it against tax." When the tax people objected, Sir Bernard tried to bill B.S.A. B.S.A. also objected, and finally Sir Bernard paid for the rig himself, but the incident rankled the other directors. They brought up other charges...