Word: papier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson...
...teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared profusely bandaged. A little girl of nine, supposed to have had her arm blown off by an air bomb, happily displayed a red-daubed papier-mache stump...
Unmoved by Dickens' crocodile tears, Biographer Kingsmill applauds his comic vein to the echo, calls The Pickwick Papers "his greatest book and the finest example of comic impressionism in our literature." He sniffs at Dickens' "Bravery" in championing social reforms, says his dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole...
Kramer went on to say that he hoped Mr. Hearst would be informed of the Liberal Club's point of view and that the Hearst organization would not continue to "throw verbal bombs at papier-mache radicals with its customary vigor...
...most producers of Shakespeare these terse instructions for The Merchant of Venice call for a papier-maché doorstep (left), a canvas backdrop with houses painted on a postcard blue sky. To Producer Max Reinhardt they call for nothing less than a street in Venice. Therefore in that Italian city last week Herr Professor Reinhardt produced a "localization" of The Merchant of Venice...