Word: papier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most of the exhibited items were from the Vignali collection, purchased in Europe three years ago by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia...
...that the corpses of their rare animals should come to the Peabody Museum. Last week the Museum announced that Old Bill's hide was in Manhattan being tanned, that his skeleton was in New Haven. Two Peabody exhibits will be made of Old Bill, the skeleton and a papier mache rhinoceros wearing Old Bill's hide. They will be placed beside Old Bill's onetime companion of circus days, Fatima, 2,000-pound mare hippopotamus...
...Dramatic Club has got to rehearse somewhere else, and decide its location very quickly. It has been suggested that the choice fall upon Parke Snow's vacant store on Massachusetts Avenue, but at present just where the Dramatic Club will move its papier-mache brick walls and scenic archways, and its Three Oranges is a secret...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"-a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity...
Therefore, on the morning of the race, some Oxford undergraduates visited the Cambridge headquarters with a huge papier-mache crab, whose eight legs were shrouded in the billowy breeches that Oxford men consider fashionable. Wansborough laughed. He was confident...