Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial films of any kind are shown, no drama, slush or comedy. Instead the peasant whose plow is wood gapes at steel tractors and harvesting machines, sees for the first time whirring factory wheels and great steamers breasting seas beyond his ken. Peasant women are shown "model homes," see babies washed as babies should be washed, even in one film reserved for married women, watch babies come as babies should come...
Biltmore originally covered 125,000 acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing...
...tastes will be forced to eat and live together under the admonitory eyes of resident members of the faculty; in short, that the new dispensation will destroy the freedom as well as the landmarks of the old social system and substitute therefore something stereotyped and stale on an English model unfitted for the American scene...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...
...Carter, 32-year-old hack writer of Larchmont, N. Y., hit upon a sure-fire plan for getting stories published and paid for. Unwilling to risk the unsure rewards of grinding out adventure tales for paper pulp magazines, mailing and re-mailing them to apathetic editors, he decided to model his compositions after successful stories already printed. Not only did he set about copying them as to sense, but as to content, letter perfect...