Word: statuetted
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...week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...
...good morning to you!" said the Minister of Public Instruction and Art. With his finger and thumb he plucked an immensely valuable statuet from his pocket and waggled it under the curator's nose. "To teach you a lesson I run the risk of arrest as a thief. It is possible to walk into this museum as easily as into a mill. I was stopped by no one. I paid no admission. I could have filled my pockets with loot...
Last week the Ferargil Galleries offered for sale a statuet of Venus which has been kept obscure for many years in the gallery of a Manhattan collector. It is the work, experts say, of Praxiteles*-a figure twelve inches high representing the goddess rising from a broken wave. The arms, beautifully modeled, are intact; the legs are gone below the thighs; the lovely, epicene face is turned toward the shoulder. Was Phryne the model? Was the pose inspired by the famous painting by Appeles? All that is known is that a peasant dug it up in a brown field near...
...curtain rose again, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, blond and unhampered by modesty, appeared as "a statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...