Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom) he lives simply in Radnor outside Philadelphia. He claims that his house is so furnished that he can put his feet up whenever he sits down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger sons take to railroading, but his eldest is determined to be a singer. Railroader Atterbury once remarked: "If you become the greatest musician in the world, what of it?" He reads very light novels, likes duckshooting, plays his own rules at contract with a stern righteousness...
...foreword which comes last, Author Laing tells how near he has kept to the facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...
...economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
...throughout the catalog are neat seals: "Recommended by Ward's Bureau of Standards." But there is still the same harping on the economy of mail-order retailing, the same half-page cuts of lusty steamfitters in immaculate "Super-Pioneer" workshirts, the same "build-your-own" tractor from a Model T Ford...
...spent 14 hellish months as a matron in a Southern penitentiary. Conditions there and her helplessness to do anything lasting about them filled her with a horror of prisons, a grim determination to do what she could. The first shadow of middle age found her in charge of a model woman's prison in Manhattan, an Authority, a Famous Woman...