Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudly borne between grey-uniformed State troopers, an elaborately colored plaster bust was brought from the New York State Police barracks at Hawthorne, N. Y. last week and propped up before hard-boiled detectives at New York City's police headquarters. As far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of the victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
...issue you had an article regarding the exhumation of the body of Peter Stuart Ney, which lies buried in the graveyard of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church two miles from Cleveland, N. C. You stated that the body was dug up in 1887, a skull found, and a plaster cast made of same, which has since disappeared. I wish to inform you that two weeks ago the daughter of Dr. P. A. Laugenour, who made this plaster cast, located the same in the attic of his widow. She presented the same to the writer, and it has been placed...
...award of the commission to Sculptor Moretti was followed by weeks of haggling over models. Up for debate was the question of whether Birmingham's Vulcan should be ugly and misshapen, as mythology insists, or a handsome Hermes as many Alabamians insisted. The ugly Vulcan won. Plaster casts were made during the winter and the hulking Vulcan, 50 ft. 6 in. from head to toe, was cast by the James R. McWane Foundry. The finished product weighed 60 tons...
...from early childhood. Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead...
...almost deserted was the underground Lakeside Exhibition Hall, where visitors were invited to prowl through plaster of Paris mines, gaze at blast furnaces and Bessemer converters, store away such bits of useful knowledge as: "It takes five tons of material to make one ton of steel." Touching off a brighter spark of interest was the Hall of Progress. There, not far from a distiller's display, was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's booth, the Ohio State Chiropractic Society's show, a $275,000 exhibit of the good works of the Federal Government...