Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' Thirdly, Miss Alice De Lamar, late mine operator's daughter, ' worth ten millions in her own right' and ' reputed a beauty.' Fourthly, Miss Alice Muriel Astor ('five millions is not such a lot with which to model a kingdom,' said the News, ' but it would be sufficient to finance a vice crusade on Sofia's night life'). Fifthly, Mimi Brokaw, ' one of the season's debutantes,' who ' being extremely young, the idea of queening it over the Bulgarians might tickle...
...ballet, production. The Metropolitan had always enjoyed fine orchestra conducting. This Gatti sustained with Toscanini and then with his present German conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. In Moranzoni, Papi and Haesselmans he has now a first-rate set of Italian and French conductors. Under Giulio Setti the Metropolitan chorus became a model. The productions ? Samuel Thewman is the present stage manager ? have kept to a high standard...
...good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
...ever made as a token of affection from her subjects. Sir Edwin L. Lutyens, designer of the Cenotaph, London's great war memorial, conceived the idea, enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot. Thumbnail paintings by Orpen, Sargent, Lavery, Cope, Holliday, of the Academy; murals by Nicholson; decorations by Edmund Dulac; etchings by Stanley Anderson; a staircase by Frampton...
...Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Niels Bohr of the University of Copenhagen give the first of his lectures on the theory of spectra and atomic constitution. Professor Bohr, who has won international reputation in connection with the theory of atomic constitution, in his lecture yesterday explained the model atom which he has invented...