Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road of Russian dupes when she expressed a desire to see her new conquest in southern Russia. Prince Potemkin, her Premier, who had misappropriated all the funds Catherine gave him for the development of southern Russia, took the Empress on a long trip through the country, showing her model villages and happy, singing populations. While the Empress was resting at chateaux along the road. Prince Potemkin had the villages moved so she was surrounded with a vision of prosperity. When the Tsarina discovered the fraud, years later, she jailed Prince Potemkin, afterwards executing...
...Bail Eireann held in Ireland were said to be the most un-Irish in history. With few exceptions, there was no violence, no laughter on Election Day; the Emerald Isle was plunged into a strange and incomprehensible peace, which seems to have staggered the Irish themselves. It was a "model election...
...taking office he appointed two new members of the State Board of Agriculture for the purpose of securing the election of George Wilson, Farmer-Laborite, as President of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. Wilson was elected and announced a policy which would bar the classics and install a model packing plant. Students, alumni, citizens of Stillwater and American Legion rebelled. Now the two new members of the Board of Agriculture have been removed. This, in the words of Governor Walton, " means a change in the Presidency of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of this state." The Governor explains that...
...Seventeen brief notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
...takes his work seriously, and he writes and rewrites his humorous paragraphs with deliberation and care. Quite a model young man, then, whose one vice seems to be an overwhelming desire to be an author of large and serious reputation. He wishes to be anything but funny, and yet he is certainly funny. Just what can be done about it, I don't quite know...