Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses are afflicted with noises like these. Can anything be done to keep you from hearing simultaneously the matrimonial differences of the slovenly young couple upstairs, the radio in 4-A, the quacking of the saxophone across the hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...
...main part of the building at the north will be a vaulted lobby with limestone walls and flagstone floor opening to the east on to a library, 32 oy 35 feet, finished in natural white pine and trowelled plaster, and on the west down a double stair, to a large room, 32 by 45 feet, two stories high, which will be used at present as a library for the group of Freshman halls. The finish will be natural pine and oak and trowelled plaster with tile floor. Both of these rooms will be less formal in treatment than corresponding ones...
...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
...peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment peered over their shoulders. In the dim light, on the floor of the quiet interior, they beheld unmistakable fragments-the torn limbs, the broken heads of Generals Lee, Jackson and their gallant soldiers, bits of plaster, pieces of stone. They had come too late...