Word: poses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Lanphier paused to pose for her picture as a CRIMSON photographer added to the already thick could of smoke from the flashes which shrouded her dressing room. Then she turned to the CRIMSON reporter, who had tried unsuccessfully in New York at a previous time to get an interview with the star of "The American Venus." "I was sorry," she declared, "but we have to be careful in the metropolis. It's different here in Boston...
...happening and what responsible people are saying. That I get from the daily papers and that I do not get in TIME any better nor in fact as well. What makes TIME attractive to its readers is the gently "snappy" way in which its items are written and its pose of sophistication, knowingness and slight derisiveness which is now the fashion. To me, whose business it is to know what is taking place in the world, TIME has nothing what ever to offer, except the comments of its staff and they have not the faintest interest. I have seen...
...Police Commissioner's office?" He was let out at the second floor, "strode vigorously" down a long corridor, "pushed aside a heavy door," and went into the Commissioner's office beyond. He stayed with his predecessor 17 minutes, and strode out. Photographers were waiting for him. "Will you pose?" He hesitated, nodded. "Make it snappy now!" Reporters began to ask questions: "Have you been sworn in as Police Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will you be here tomorrow?" "Yes." He hurried down the stairs with a policeman chasing him. In the street the policeman caught up: "Mr. Commissioner...
...Article of War and harshly penalizes him by retaining him in the Army but suspends hm from work, command and duty with forfeiture of all pay for five years. The officers of this Court did not dismiss Mitchell from the Army, but retained him so that he could not pose as a martyr nor indulge in further criticism...
...guests he had to lunch, and he fired a roll from his dining table through the open window on to Shaw's table and his guests saw Shaw and heard him too .... He can be very amusing when he does not try to be; when he does not pose and is just Shaw, expatriate, transplanted Irishman...