Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should someone have borrowed the maps to cover patches of bare plaster in his or her room, Poole will be glad to suggest a less-strategic wallpaper. The Government Department, which is not ready to start a College-wide investigation, has the idea that some envious professor with an eye to his own requirements might have walked off with the two maps...
...scornful maiden to Sidney Trefusis, the hero. " 'On the contrary,' " he says. " 'I proposed, and she accepted. That is why I have to hide.' " Trefusis is a wealthy Socialist who disguises himself as a workman, lives in a gaudy ancestral mansion full of trapezes, plaster statues and carpenter's tools. He serves as a mouthpiece for Author Shaw, then a poverty-stricken young Socialist who wandered around London, a picture of "indescribable seediness," with a sharp eye cocked toward the future and the generation's best brains in his head...
Dishes rattled, plaster cracked, pictures fell from the walls. At the first ominous rumble one morning last week, residents of Niagara Falls swept to a panicky conclusion: something drastic had happened to the city's most precious scenic attraction...
...while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...