Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harry Kelsey Devereux, 72, Cleveland socialite, onetime president of the Grand Circuit Racing Association and of the American Association of TrottingHorse Breeders, model for the drummer boy in the late A. M. Willard's* painting The Spirit of '76; at Thomasville, Ga.; of heart failure...
...clock this morning, six fire engines, led by the chief's car and a giant hook-and-ladder raced to the scene of a fire which was rapidly consuming the seat of a Model A Ford car parked on the corner of Linden and Bow streets. With considerable difficulty, the entire front seat of the automobile was removed, the conflagration was extinguished, and the fire apparatus disappeared into the night...
...Beaver Falls Bureau of Health he entered local politics. During the War he served a year overseas with the Army Medical Corps. But small-town medicine was too small a field to suit him. Extending his activities, he became president of Beaver Falls State Bank and of Model Candy Co., first vice president and director of Moltrup Steel Products Co. As a cog in the Mellon Republican machine in western Pennsylvania, he was first elected to the House in 1926, is now serving his third consecutive term. In Congress: A rear-rank private in the G. O. P. infantry...
...road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker's blood begins to simmer. With Muller, a circus mechanic, he opens a bicycle shop. Soon Muller and he are fooling with automobiles. Their first model is bought by Financier Homer Flint, from Pentland where Joanna lives. Pierre goes into business under Homer's wing, marries his daughter Hazel for her fortune's sake. All goes well until, one day on the golf links, he sees his son Peter, Joanna's child. With Joanna...