Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veteran General registers the only protest. Since seeing a photo graph of the model, he has been un able to sleep nights. Although a U. S. soldier might fly on an eagle, says he, he would never carry a sword instead...
...Abie's Irish Rose is indefinitely hokum. The French tradition is precise, rigorous and quite apart from life. Stage effects have been tested, analyzed and put up in little packages. Declamation and gesture have been rubbed by custom until they shine like polished pendants. In diagrams and model groups they cluster contentedly about the theatre and quite diffuse the raw beams of light and life...
...papers in the land that were desirous of employing "a great literary critic . . . perhaps the fore- most in America." Hereafter there will be no excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read...
Robert V. Jaros, 18, Illinois University student, brought forth a model monoplane, driven by twisted rubber bands, that broke two world's records by staying in the air 10 min. 14 sec. and covering a mile and a half...
...came, finally, to London, loaded with souvenirs and memories of his travels. One 'day, he started to model the head of a Negro such as those he had known in darkest Africa. In 1901, it was shown in the Paris Salon. It is now in the Luxembourg Museum...