Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ornate but dusty chandeliers. Blue walls between stained white Ionic columns. A plaster frieze of dancing nymphs like a Wedgwood plaque. That is October Hall in the House of the Labor Unions in Moscow, and before the Revolution the gay dining room of the Nobles' Club. The world's eyes were on October Hall last week when six British engineers-together with twelve Russian defendants, in which neither Soviet nor world Press took much interest-went on trial for their lives charged with espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). If these men were found innocent millions...
...Stanley Cup. Last week he proved his achievement was no fluke. In the third game against New York he slapped two shots past the Rangers' noisy young goalie, Andy Aitkenhead. The Rangers tied the score but red-haired Reginald Horner of the Leafs, playing with a plaster-cast on his broken right hand, finished what Doraty had started, won the game for Toronto 3 to 2 with a goal in the last period...
Working in his Paris studio, Paul Manship gave a year to the sketches for Paul Rainey's gate. He mapped American brown bear and deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full...
...Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...
...invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...