Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was just what Minister Maginot was driving at. Motorization was not enough. He was ready last week to abandon universal military service, traditional in France since the 18th Century committee of public safety, for a Quality Army of paid volunteers on the German. British, U. S. model. Sententiously commented Perfumer Coty's Le Figaro: "The strength of the French Army is the best guarantee of the peace of Europe...
...founding of the colony. In 1902 three young friends, Hervey White, the late Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Coit Brown, fired with a dream that Poet-Painter William Morris (1834-96) had outlined to Whitehead at Oxford, started tramping through the eastern U. S. in search of a model site for an art colony. White and Whitehead roamed the Carolinas, but it was Brown who discovered Woodstock.? He sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants are now. For a long...
...scandal threatens, however, she abandons him, though it costs her her heart and her youth. Sebastian roams on darkly, rebellious but ineffective. For a time he finds a pretty young middle-class doctor's wife refreshing, until her bourgeois virtue thwarts him. Later he loves a hard-headed little model for her honest kindness, and there is mention of a game-keeper's daughter. His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon him, and at last he languidly courts a proper match. Against his will...
From the Manhattan office of President Frederic Newlin Price of the American Art Dealers Association came announcement of a model contract, defining rights and privileges of dealers and artists. Executive committees representing the Dealers Association and the American Artists Professional League drew up the agreement, agreed to abide by it. Long a worker for such an agreement was the late William Sherman Potts, president of the American Society of Miniature Painters. For as Dealer Price observed: "It is time the art business should be put on a business basis. A generation ago it was a gamble. That...
Confident is the Attorney General that the structure he plans will be in all ways a model institution. Congress last session appropriated $3,850,000 of which $1,700,000 is available for an immediate start. Once authorized and appropriated for, prisons can be built quickly. The "big house" at Lewisburg will be ready for 1,050 guests by July...