Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself any more. It is the children's future which concerns me. The court will decide my fate, and I pray that the jury will be kind and let me leave with my children to start a new life in America!" Parade of Innocents. Arlette Stavisky, onetime Chanel model and the mistress of the Great Swindler long before she was his wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice, as the State now charges, but credulity was strained last week when the other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents...
...acquaint novice tipplers with this useful fact. In 1933 the State Legislature had laid a tax of 1? per cwt. on milk, half the proceeds to go for an advertising campaign designed to up milk consumption. The 1934 campaign, conducted by the State Department of Health, was a model of dignified propriety, cost $400,000, upped milk consumption not a quart. Last July the job was turned over to the State Department of Agriculture & Markets, which promptly hired a professional advertising agency to pep things...
...trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...model young woman is modest Henrietta Leaver of McKeesport, Pa. who until three months ago worked in a 5? & 10? store. One to whom Miss Leaver was not entirely unknown was Manager George Tyson of Pittsburgh's Alvin Theatre who recalled that two years ago she was runner-up for the title of "Miss McKeesport," that she tried again this year and won the title of "Miss Pittsburgh" in a beauty contest of his organizing. Two months ago when "Miss Pittsburgh" was glorified at Atlantic City as "Miss America of 1935," he became her manager. And last week "Miss...
...hard. Rain leaked through the roof of the little dark house where we lived and it was damp. We had poor food, but he was always a loving and considerate son-a model...