Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They gave me some clay," he said, "and some flowers, and they told me to model the flowers. Well, li'l flowers are all right but Ah ain't got no interest in flowers, so Ah took mah clay home and made me a hoss, and ever since they been lettin' me make hosses...
Student Wheeler of the Cleveland Art School was virtually graduated the same day he matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what...
Next day penny "spilliwobbles" sold like hot cross buns on Good Friday. Shrewd, the makers of the "spilliwobble" promptly brought out a de luxe priced model for rich "spilliwobblers" priced at one guinea...
...which might make a stirring novel, instead of a deadly dull, if the characters were convincing. Miss Gale's are incredibly and painfully fictitious. Her style, suffering since Miss Lulu Bett from chronic realism and acute poetic indigestion, is scarcely to be recommended as a model of lucidity to students at the University of Wisconsin, of which she is a Regent. An explanation of her elusive theme may be that Miss Gale has lately been concerned more with spiritualism than with literature...
...lightfooted, and there is not an Arow Collar model in the lot. They are swarthy and masculine enough to satisfy and Rifflan, standards. And their voices are excellent. But their enunciation is frightful. Of all the songs except those which the comedian talks not more than ten words get over the footlights. And no doubts that is just as well, if the lyrics are no better than jazz operetta demands...