Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging people to join the Socialist Party rather than the National Union had their banners snatched out of their hands by mounted policemen. But vendors of plaster busts and photographs of the radio priest were unmolested...
...estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
...Milwaukee, Wis., toothless L. M. Crouch stuffed wax in his gums; hardened the wax by holding cold water in his mouth; from this mold made a base of litharge, plaster of Paris and mercurochrome; stuck into it pieces of a porcelain dinner plate; filed the pieces smooth with emery paper and had a serviceable set of false teeth, with which to attend a Boy Scout dinner. Last week, he announced that the china teeth, in service since February, would be presented to a museum when he gets the set he has ordered from a dentist...
...Stephen Bransgrove was an Australian scene painter who had won the Ellin P. Speyer prize for animal portraiture in 1933 with a canvas which he had copied stroke for stroke from a colored reproduction in a British magazine. The animal prize was awarded this year to a heavy plaster statue of a pelican swallowing a fish, by the eminently reputable Bruce Moore...