Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purest bull character into a bull of bronze, reasoned Sculptor Herbert Haseltine, is to model only from a champion. Furthermore, the owners of such prize animals are usually only too glad to pay for it. For 13 years Haseltine has been freezing champions into stone and bronze as accurately as a Stone Age man graphing a bison on his cave wall. Last week the results, tilling two rooms in Manhattan's swank Knoedler Galleries, were packed up and shipped to Chicago's Field Museum at Marshall Field's expense to go on permanent exhibition...
...Traviata the role of the elder Germont is no test for an actor. But Thomas sang "Di Provenza," the one big aria, in model fashion, moved about the stage surely, easily, appeared properly sympathetic with the emotional frenzies of the consumptive Violetta...
Commissioner MacCormick could not change Welfare Island overnight from a crowded, filthy firetrap to a model institution, but he could and did put Cleary, Rao & Co. in solitary confinement to await possible dope-peddling trials. The Commissioner sent narcotic addicts and diseased prisoners to the hospital, while young prisoners were segregated. He took from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden...
...rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when...
...will entrust," said Dr. Klein, "the job of keeping the German people physically fit, not to the so-called modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand old general physician is what I have in mind as an ideal. A family confidant, the general doctor can size up a person as a whole. He has profound wisdom and knowledge of character, born of experience. . . . Specialists are useful occasionally...