Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This possibility has been strengthened by the discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics...
...first setting is a large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...
What is the outcome? Constantine has apparently been tumbled out from Greece once more and probably Venizelos, supported by the rebellious navy, will return to power. The plaster-of-Paris Sultan at Constantinople is reported on the verge of abdication. But the grave question is whether a reorganized Greece can hold off the Turkish re-entry into Thrace if the Allies stand by their intention to hand it over to the Angora government...
...most recent arrivals are twelve capitals of the Burgundian Romanesque style--all originals of great value. The three large figure capitals are said to be the finest in the world--even the Louvre possesses nothing better, and the Trocadero was obliged to be satisfied with taking plaster models of them before they left France. All of which only further illustrates the present influx of valuable works of art from Europe into America. But if they are bound to come here surely a college museum open to class-room work and to the public, is a better home for them than...
Weak floors, plaster walls, and wooden stairways are not conducive to the safety of the hundreds who make use of these recitations halls each day. Nor does the absence of adequate fire-escapes improve conditions. True, Sever boasts a well hidden system of chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down...