Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiently pessimistic to say that I have never seen a lady. But with green eyes? No. I saw one with a green dress at the Pops though, last Saturday night. She was divine, if divine means inhuman. For really they don't make them in that model any more. I had just heard the Spring Song and was smoking a very good cigar, Corona Belvedere (adv.) and for a moment I forgot that Plato had very little regard for the less intellectual sex. But it was only a moment. I remembered Plato and munched a pretzel, remembered Epicurus and prayed...
...house the author has selected a summer-resort hotel as the background of his philosophy. Again he features a nosey, flighty spinster. This one is particularly interested in males, especially males in whom other females are interested. Opposed to her in the play's development is a sensible artists' model, possessing a maximum of feminine charm and amiability. This part is most agreeably played by Joan Maclean...
...most women wear in a lifetime, is probably sufficient excuse for a picture. The rest of this one is mostly unworthy, with the welcome exception of some of the subtitles. The story is about an American in Paris who set up a dress shop to display a specially inviting model...
...recent investigations into the early history of Harvard" mentioned in your front-page article on Saturday, are revolutionary, if true. If these "researches" have uncovered the "original plan of John Harvard and his fellow pioneers" to found small colleges on the English model, they have discovered something that all historians of Harvard have hitherto sought in vain...
...principle the recommendation of the Student Council at Harvard that the University be subdivided into colleges on the Oxford model strikes us as excellent. Harvard is far from being the largest university in the land, but recently it has had to limit its Freshman class to 1,000. One thousand students are not a college, they're a mob, and in this case they form only one of four classes in the undergraduate unit. With units like this to deal with little wonder that our colleges have become factories, turning out graduates like Fords. There is no other...