Word: poses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleverest perhaps of "Great Catherine's" maneuvers was to publish an imposing Parisian financial daily La Gazette du Franc et Des Nations, in which her bogus stock issues were gravely and "conservatively" analyzed and recommended. The pose of "American Methods" was played up to the limit in La Gazette, which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short...
...figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...poisonous varieties with ease, as he demonstrated last Spring before the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia. So the Film Foundation, which is attempting to obtain a true picture of college life, took advantage of the coming of the snake to get Dr. Barbour in a characteristic pose...
thousand miles to accomplish their pur-j pose. And we? We progress not a single inch in anything...
Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...