Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal was setting up the dramatic photograph of Hayes, four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag. Everyone who saw it was stirred by the picture; it brought Rosenthai a Pulitzer Prize, was made into a postage stamp, finally became the model for a monument in Washington to the Marine dead of all wars. For Ira, the picture was a prelude to tragedy...
...life Rubinstein and his money attracted swarms of women, most of them beautiful and taller by several inches than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...
Cecil Mayes was the first. The young (22) North Carolinian ex-Air Forceman was thumbing a ride on Chicago's West Side when a "late-model" car pulled up to the curb and the driver waved him over. "Do you believe in God?" asked the stranger, whom Mayes remembers as middleaged. "Yes," said Mayes. "Do you need some money?" "Yes," said Mayes. The man reached over, put a roll of bills in his hand and drove off. Round-eyed Bill Mayes looked down at his fist. It was clamped around six $50 bills...
...such tactics, said Silver, the sewing-machine agency was able to peddle 3,500 machines last year, for about $600,000. Only 36 persistent people could be found who had been able to buy the $26.50 model. In another case, an upholstering firm that advertised a $69 renovating job on the air made an average sale of $160 on responses, for a total $117,000 last year. Warned Silver: "People were just inviting the burglar into their homes...
...Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered motor (325 h.p. with supercharger, 265 h.p. without) of the celebrated Duesenberg "model J" passenger car made it a favorite with the U.S. and European quality trade, and a model from which manufacturers borrowed features since incorporated in mass-produced American cars...