Word: modelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hats, who will act as ushers, tell timid matrons where to find comfort stations, etc. As official hostess was chosen 21-year-old Frances Nalle, with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during the next three months...
...eleven years Red Ryan was Kingston Penitentiary's model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Prison reform societies hailed him, Premier Richard Bedford Bennett went to see him, emerged deeply moved. Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities...
When the smoke cleared away both bandits were dying; Constable Jack Lewis lay dead on the floor. Behind the mask of the bigger bandit was the face of Ontario's model prisoner, Red Ryan. He had systematically engaged in robberies ever since his parole. A stolen car was parked nearby...
Since March, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, wild-eyed Fascist son of Spain's former dictator, has languished in Madrid's new model prison charged with inciting insurrection through his blueshirted followers, the Falange Espanola. Last week Blueshirt de Rivera was in court again. Detectives searching his home had found two pistols...
After receiving the $65,000 commission, Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level...