Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competently acted, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford's humor derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...
Stages, scaffolding, a litter of broken plaster and a husky ex-cowboy occupied the small, tall Gallery of Contemporary American Art in the Detroit Arts Institute last week. Occasionally letting out a hearty "goddam" when something went wrong, the ex-cowboy was delicately daubing soft hues on the wet plaster walls, shaping dreamy, feminine figures...
...widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like...
...President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...