Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether a person is sensitive to ragweed, strawberries, horsehair, chicken feathers, scarlet fever, diphtheria or any other known allergen. The physician scrapes off a tiny area of the patient's skin, applies a drop or two of the allergic substance, covers the whole with a piece of adhesive plaster. Skin tests have preserved the health and lives of multitudes. They have also" served to reveal that about 1% of the population develops an eczema-like skin irritation solely from the adhesive tape used in covering the skin-test material...
...flunkey struggling up to the tribune with a heavy pedestal, its top padded with red plush. A few minutes later Pierre Etienne Flandin walked slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin the Frenchman who bravely defied physical pain to do his duty...
...Missouri Historical Society. The 3,000 items included: the grease-stained Lindbergh flying suit; the Congressional Medal of Honor; decorations from 20 governments; 49 old life-membership passes in fraternities and lodges; 18 gold keys to cities in Europe and the U. S.; 14 portrait busts in silver, bronze, plaster, peachstone, soap; numerous paintings; 256 books; 200 medals; 64 models of the Spirit of St. Louis, including one cut from a half-inch diamond; gold & silver loving-cups; gold & diamond-studded personal jewelry, including six stickpins, ten watches, nine rings; a pair of 18th Century silver globes worth...
Washington, May 21--Asserting that the depressed world needs an operation and "not a mustard plaster" Sen. Milliard F. Tydings, D., Md., today proposed an international conference on war debts, currency stabilization and trade revival to be held in the nation's capital...
Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...