Word: posing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norman Bel Geddes is short, with a muscular chunkiness. His sandy, habitually tousled hair and careless attire indicate no esthetic pose. They suggest the informality of a summer camper, or a man tinkering in a workshop. He was born in Adrian, Mich., in the '90s, and christened Norman Geddes...
...prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...
Lampy does not usually strike the pose of a crusader. But Lampy did feel, God forgive him, at the time the Protest of the Masses Number was in contemplation that all was not right in the little world about him. For months on end he had heard the faint, polite voice of the Harvard CRIMSON weakly trying to reason things out. But the CRIMSON left so many vital things unsaid...
Lampy then decided to express his opinions on the subject. But Lampy is not a rational creature; unfortunately he has clowned too long to strike the dignified pose of a Superior Court Judge. He could only laugh at Things as They are. To straighten out the creases in his face and put on a sober look was as impossible as for him to write a CRIMSON editorial or a piece in the Alumni Bulletin...
...Foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler '28, tried to catch each man in a characteristic pose. Director Barbour of the University Museum was filmed charming a dangerous snake, while Professor Merriman had his inevitable pointer...