Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emilio Frederico Disario, a young Boston sculptor, in his little studio at the Dorchester Cement Store Company. Disario made one trip to the Yard to view the statue of John Harvard, from which the replica was made, and then spent a few hours at the studio modelling the plaster positive. According to most critics, however, in spite of the haste in which Disario finished his work, the replica is remarkable not only for likeness to the original, but also for the "character" which the sculptor modelled into the face...
...prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make way for the diamond-studded throng of sagaciously tardy Society- diplomats, titled foreigners, valuably accoutred dowagers, stiffly-starched magnates...
...this situation, a Mr. E. J. Mehren hopes by means of soap, water and snappy clothes to reawaken the old guild spirit of craftsmanship in the modern workman. And what a change that will make: relieved of the inferiority complex which his former garments made him feel, the new plasterer will step out with the pomposity of a banker, and lay plaster with the assurance of a hotel clerk. With this new complacency added to his already striking prosperity, the plasterer will be a man envied...
Massachusetts Hall will be ready for students' quarters next autumn. The actual construction will be finished before this, but not soon enough for use during the present college year. The building will be entirely fireproof, steel concrete and plaster being the only new materials. The foundations were found to be entirely good, while the walls, though firm in most places, will have to have new bricks here and there Massachusetts Hall will hold about 40 men. There will be 10 bedrooms and six studies on each flooor...
...stepped George W. Wickersham, onetime U. S. Attorney General, to elaborate upon the profound effect U. S. thought had undergone from the writings of Sir William Blackstone, 18th Century commentator. As Mr. Wickersham concluded, the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack were slipped from their moorings about a plaster figure of Sir William, gift of the American...