Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs with plaster, until a gun was fired off three times and Franco Georgetti and Gerard Debaets posed for flashlights holding the big bouquets that go to the winners. They had won by a single lap after 2,162 miles of pedaling...
...past the defense and tried a shot he does not follow the puck like his bald teammate, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, but skates gracefully back, content that he has made an effort. Last Saturday in Boston young Murdock got angry when Indian-faced Hitchman of Boston, wearing a patch of plaster over each eye, had thrown him against the boards. Three times Murdock went down the ice, scored twice in thirty-two seconds, earned his team a tie with Boston...
Certain-Teed Products Corp. and of Beaver Board Companies agreed on a $45,000,000 consolidation. Certain-Teed makes shingles & other roofing materials, building & insulated papers, dry asphalt & tarred felt, linoleum and other floor coverings, oil cloth, plaster and gypsum products, paints, varnishes, enamels. Beaver makes roofing materials, gypsum and plaster products, wood fibre boards...
...young lady is expected to have any gentleman acquaintances, unless they are returned missionaries or agents of benevolent societies. Daguerrotypes and plaster busts are also prohibited...
...acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...