Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the boring competition ended, Betty Wilson, a swimmer, and Howard Williams, a steeplejack and flagpole sitter, were tied for first prize. Promoter Crandall suggested that they talk off the tie. The gab fest cost Promoter Crandall $12,000 and he derived no financial profit from his game...
...function of the portrait painter, as distinct from that of the painter, can be thus explained. It is his business not only to produce a work of art but to produce a likeness that satisfies the sitter or the sitter's advisors. Few portrait painters can achieve the two things simultaneously and those who can quickly become popular; their popularity grows larger like a snowball...
...remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter is forced to use the entire seat thus getting the benefit of back rest. Also, the chair is rounded in front so that arteries are not pinched. From March to June (1927) 6,000 "posture chairs" were sold in contrast to 2,000 armless revolving chairs during the same period...
Thus, for example, one Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly expects soon to collect $1,000 per week in vaudeville. No singer, no dancer, no card-trickster, no chatterer, no club-swinger is Mr. Kelly. He is a sitter. Last week he came down from a seat fastened to the top of the flagpole on the roof of the St. Francis Hotel, Newark, N. J. There he had perched continuously for twelve days and twelve hours (TIME, June...
Some of the contributing artists, including Sargent, are paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...