Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politician. Mr. Curley's tactics are similar to those of a parasite existing by living off of a large fish. In this case Mr. F. D. Roosevelt plays the part of the fish. Mr. James Roosevelt and Postmaster General Jim Farley constitute a weak kind of sticking plaster that keeps the parasite clinging to the fish. The fish, however, like real fish that carry parasites, is apparently unaware of Mr. Curley's attachment to him; at least he does not try to shake him off or even notice him, because this whole business of Mayor Curley being the Massachusetts Roosevelt...
...Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which she was born in the White House in 1876. which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael...
...candidate for Governor of Maryland, hurried off to attend a meeting of his campaign finance committee at the home of a Baltimore banker. In the banker's dark and unfamiliar garden, Candidate Nice toppled down a short flight of stone steps, fractured his right arm. Arm and shoulder in plaster cast, he continued to campaign...
...hardly were paint & plaster dry on the new mansions when Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness came along with some $10,000,000 and an idea that Yale should be broken up into small residential colleges on the English plan. Last autumn his idea became a reality. Each upperclassman was required to eat at least ten meals per week, at $5.50, in his college. For $2.50 more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which...
Faculty members need have no fear of plaster falling into the midst of one of their assemblies, for workmen have spent the summer renovating University Hall, and the patched and cracking ceiling of the Faculty Room exists no longer...