Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheel of Fortune is a surprising book. It sets out like a society farce, develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...housing the medals, sombreros, plaster statuets and other memorabilia of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose Paris flight was financed by St. Louis citizens...
...Marx a household name and a music hall gag for the last third of a century. Hart Schaffner & Marx copy forms a faithful record of what the U. S dandy has believed were the styles of the times. Best advertising stunt in the company's history was to plaster France with $50,000 worth of banners right after the Armistice, announcing to the A. E. F.: "Stylish clothes are ready for you in the good old U. S. A.-All-wool guaranteed-Hart Schaffner & Marx...
This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
Just west of the little town of St. Cruz, the scientists found the natives had burned extensive quantities of rock, making plaster. In this red clay territory, they explained where there are rocks there is a good chance of finding fossils. Thus the local kilns served as rough land marks, guiding the scientists to their major finds...