Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
Gestures & Panic. On arriving at the League of Nations' new headquarters which smell strongly of fresh plaster and paint, the British and French delegations, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Benito Mussolini, set about trying to pack the Credentials Committee with a view to having it bar His Majesty Haile Selassie who in London had clapped on his derby hat and was winging toward Geneva. As a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Adolf Hitler, some of whose German bombing planes were strafing the Red militia in Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts...
...money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days, or were nourished on a mixture of milk and gypsum which 'created a plaster coating on their digestive tracts. Lack of inquiry into the causes of infant mortality stimulated what Author Adamic calls a "horrid industry...
...drawings of furniture, chests, ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges. As last year, a sizeable section was set apart for the work of children in state-supported institutions. Some of their output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks ago, and a watercolor of a vixenish young lady in a little veil, painted by 10-year-old Donald...
TORCH LIGHT PROCESSION. From the Weld Boat House at 9.30 o'clock. All undergraduates who are unaccompanied by any guests should assemble in a special enclosure roped off by the Boat House. The procession will be headed by the Harvard Band and a group of Marshals carrying a plaster cast statue of John Harvard. Undergraduates should see pamphlet received at registration for further details...