Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
Mima. Exciting, spectacular drama. Hell's smart rulers, to destroy the good in man, invent a sin-mill. Through it goes Janos, model man. At the last moment the one good act he does makes the machine explode. The act: forgiveness of the charming sin-woman, Mima (in the U. S., Lenore Ulric). Says Molnar: "The machine itself is nothing more than a visible combination of our machine world and the psychological grind...
With Ford plants again running on heavy schedules, with Model A carrying on the tradition of illustrious Model T, with steady growth of Ford European companies, Henry Ford is well pleased with the automotive business and vigorously engaged in making his company bigger, better than ever before. Heavy, however, has been the personnel overturn at the Ford plant, particularly executive personnel. Detroit has become almost blasé concerning appointments, rearrangements and resignations among the men who help make the Ford...
McCall's, edited by Otis L. Wiese, 23, gives advice on how to raise children, set table, cook meals, keep the house neat, the cellar clean. Its fiction is Zane Greyish, its articles "nicely" written. Aimed at the "model" housewife or Girl Scout, it contains no cigaret advertisements, no suggestive matter...
...turbulent Feng. Last week a stable China united under one government seemed nearer fulfillment than at any time in the past 18 years. Feng's armies and dominions, it was announced, were to be turned over to Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, strong ally of the Nationalists, "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...