Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of access was to stand on the roof of Hollis, rope the Harvard chimney and come over on that. But one night, coming up the stairs, the "thieves" avoided the sheet-iron door by going around it. As old Jones used to say. "The boys tore out the plaster and went through the wall...
...invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...
Walter Hampden: "While taking a leap called for in the third act of Cyrano de Bergerac, I fell and broke a bone in my left foot. I finished the performance, but later it was found necessary to put the foot into a plaster cast and to discontinue performances until probably Dec. 10. Meanwhile we were scheduled to lose the big Thanksgiving houses...
...Daily News (Manhattan) pillories him before the public eye, championing the cause of Mrs. Stokes. It made even Mr. Stokes' comparatively innocent appearance? a harmless if not a handsome face? the subject of an almost libelous cartoon. And verbally it piled on mud to the dimensions of a plaster cast...
...opinion of competent critics, the building program for the current year is endangered by rising costs of materials. Despite present high prices, still higher ones for lumber, plaster and cement are being predicted. Brick, however, the usually reliable barometer of building material costs, remains stable at present rates, despite interruption to deliveries owing to the frozen Hudson...