Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started the Clarendon, N. Y., farm boy on his notable career. At 19 he was hired by a Rochester, N. Y., museum keeper to help stuff skins. Young Akeley knew animals too well to tolerate the straw-and-stick effigies contrived by his employer. He proposed and developed the plaster cast method used today by all museums. Later he evolved perspective backgrounds, painted in oils, to show specimens in their natural surroundings. His "Fighting Bulls" (elephants) at the entrance of the Field Museum, Chicago, brought him wide fame...
...said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protesting against the aerial ride. I replied that the parachute jumper was no Bulldog Jiggs, but merely his plaster-paris effigy...
...custom of all previous centuries should not be allowed to fade entirely from the mind of man, has seen fit to erect a lasting memorial to the horse. A section of the American Museum of Natural History is to be set aside for relics of the horse age; skeletons, plaster casts, paintings--all recalling the day when the horse was the rule, not the exception are to be stored therein. If the children of tomorrow are to be deprived of the sight of the actual animal they shall at least have an opportunity to know what it looked like...
...Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind...
...last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After a few trial hops, he had given exhibitions. Then, with his crutches strapped to the fuselage, he had flown 1,100 miles up the wintry Andes to La Paz, Bolivia...