Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Dorothy James Smart, blonde, beautiful model for hundreds of clothing ads; to Edward Lyman Bill, Manhattan publisher (The Music Trade Review, Talking Machine World, Carpet & Rug News...
...Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line...
Auto-conscious citizens have been kept in a titter of excitement since the introduction of Ford, model A, through the successive automobile shows, the successive price cuttings. If citizens had over- emphasized the importance of the vehicle industry in 1927, they were brusquely brought to their senses last week. They learned from Washington that the past year had been relatively ineffectual, auto- wise. The number of passenger cars sold was 2,938,868; less than 1926, less than 1925, less than 1924, less than...
...durability of a diamond bracelet, which, as Lorelei Lee remarked in a wisecrack which has since been heard around the world, will last forever. Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model...
...colors of the original. The effect, while it has none of the impersonal cold quality of a copy or print, misses being a duplicate of its original by the same distinction that makes a phonographic reproduction, however much perfected, not necessarily inferior to but indubitably different from its model. Facsimiles are not however intended to be imitations...