Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helpers, headed out of the apartment at the double quick. They were huddled in a hallway when several Nazi bombs whammed down upon adjoining buildings, exploded with a crash that blasted doors and windows out of Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White-lipped but determined, Archinard waited for quiet, then returned to his machine. Brushing aside bits of broken glass, he proceeded to bat out an eyewitness account of the bombing that added another feather to radio newscasting's well-feathered war bonnet. The German advance has closed one after...
...that Nurse O'Neil, whom she detests, is her mother. This discovery, the picture's climax, is effected with the help of a bang-up barrage which smashes to smithereens some valuable Republic sets of a French village, showers the cute and cowering nurses with dirt and plaster, but does not faze Elsie Janis...
...Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
Sculptor Noguchi worked for about a year at a full-scale plaster model from which the steel plaque could be cast. The plaster model (17 by 22 ft.) took up his entire studio from floor to roof. Shipped to Boston in nine pieces, Noguchi's model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster...
...went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...