Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anon the way of the Spirit seems wondrous sweet to her and she returns to the cathedral, and the Virgin, who has all these years played the part of a model nun, casts off the nun's garments and again becomes a sacred image. As she does so she takes into her arms the child which the nun has brought back, the child which dies as she returns to the way of the spirit...
...assumed the parental relation with their boys and set out to see that each individual should have "such esthetic culture and accomplishments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste, together with careful moral and religious instruction." They were schools founded (St. Paul's was the model for St. Mark's and partly for Groton) to accommodate wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind. Its graduates, "Grotties," are unmistakable. They boast: "A Groton man wires...
There was Mr. Jollyco, who was the soul of politeness and geniality when feeling pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed...
...Griffith's best. He is directing for Famous Players and apparently has to get out so many pictures a year. It is, however, one of Miss Dempster's best and that is of immense importance. She plays a newsgirl who grows up to be a model and subsequently an actress. Also included are the hilarious W. C. Fields and a cyclone...
...Famous Players for a prize scenario, the same to be serialized in Liberty, and Fannie Hurst came first. This is the picture. It does not seem to be a desperately original invention, dealing as it does with a girl (Dolores Costello) stolen in babyhood and brought up as a model in a dress shop. She kills someone, and the matter of the death penalty for women is discussed in detail. The picture is exceedingly well directed by James Cruze, and played so well by Alice Joyce (the mother) as to eliminate any doubts as to its popularity...