Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's Day; in point of importance, because he heads not only the most populous state in the Union but the government which is financially the third biggest in the land;* in point of fame, because as Governor he is Franklin Roosevelt's successor, personal friend and model supporter. When "Herbert" first took office on Jan. 1, 1933, his friend "Franklin" was there to wish him well at his inauguration. Friend Franklin was invited to be present again for Herbert's second inauguration but had to decline because the opening of Congress kept him in Washington...
...great writer until Europe had guaranteed his genius. Says Biographer Pope-Hennessy: "He has been claimed as the founder of the 'Surrealiste' school, and in his unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model for the quasi-scientific narrative of adventure, R. L. Stevenson the source for the pirate story, and Conan Doyle the pattern for detective fiction. . . . Mallarme and Valery, not to speak of Baudelaire, have recognized Poe as their master in aesthetics...
...last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
...four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures...
...Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones dug up on the beach...