Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Paul V. McNutt's white head an Army officer held a woman's umbrella. "A nation is born," said McNutt. "Long live the Republic of the Philippines." Rain dripped from the red, white, blue and gold flags and from the cheesy plaster statues; tears ran down the cheeks of President Manuel Roxas...
...Louis' right fist, in plaster, became a Manhattan museum piece. The American Museum of Natural History added it to its comparative anatomy collection...
There are rides on plaster elephants, Hindu immolation ceremonies, Chinese opium hells, Japanese circuses, storms at sea, pistol shots, gas explosions, collapsing railway bridges, Indian raids, eagles swooping down on human prey. It's pretty fast & furious horseplay, but not quite enough...
...window, made a speech to the crowd below. While she danced, Isadora's dislike of her Brahmin audience got the best of her. She stopped, pointed indignantly at the Greek statues against the wall, shouted to the audience: "They are false! And you are as false as those plaster statues. You don't know what beauty is!" Isadora stripped open her costume, bared one of her breasts. "This-this is beauty!" she cried. Next day one of Boston's shocked newspapers reported that she had given a speech in the nude. Some of the other papers hinted...
...Bulging Cellars. Taylor and his trustees called in a professional fund-raising company, the John Price Jones agency, to help him raise the $7,500,000 he wants for improvements, assuring Jones of about 4% of the take. The Jones men, given office space among the plaster busts in a storeroom back of a medieval gallery, set out to bombard press and public with good reasons for helping the Met build. Among the best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about...