Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statue was so close a likeness to the illustrious forbear whose weather beaten bronze presides over the old quadrangle that watchers were convinced that the original had been removed from his pedestal to participate in the event. The imitation, undoubtedly formed of plaster, was painted in the exact colors of green and grey which are seen on the original. Of the many features in the parade, which encompassed 40,000 participants, none aroused more comment than the amazing likeness of the founder of the University...
...unemployment. With him were Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ferry K. Heath in charge of such construction and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John W. Philp. The President's mind was full of the new buildings which would soon replace the temporary Wartime structures of plaster board and stucco in Washington which now house many a potent Government agency, many a precious record. Thoroughly familiar was he with the old warning that these 12-year-old "shacks" were the worst kind of firetraps...
When Chicagoans trooped down to the South Side to witness the wrigglings of Fatima ("The Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter") on the Midway, to gasp at gorgeous pyrotechnic displays, to parade through the handsome plaster buildings of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White at the Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu...
...Heart Villa at Caldwell, N. J. Last week there, walking through a doorway, she stumbled. A leg, necrosed by the radium, broke. She was taken to the Orthopedic Hospital at Orange, N. J. There doctors thought they could avoid amputation. She lies with the broken leg in a heavy plaster cast...
...Sioux City, Iowa, H. J. Dagle broke his back several months ago, lived in a plaster cast. Last week he was stung on a vein by a bee, died in 20 minutes...