Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket and a cylinder. These Monsignor Caccia Dominioni removed. The prelates departed, officially sure that the Holy Door of St. Peter's, walled up at the end of the 1925 Holy Year and containing mementoes of it, had not been disturbed...
...news of the inauguration. Senate meetings, etc., etc., which are always so vividly portrayed in the TIME broadcast when suddenly my clock fell to the floor at my feet and the floor rose and fell like an ocean wave, the book case full of books toppled over, plaster fell from the walls and ceiling, dishes crashed out of the cupboard; pots, pans, and food fell off the kitchen shelves...
...Colgate dinosaur egg was the only one sold. The British Museum, to which the American Museum of Natural History had sent a plaster replica of an egg gratis, refused to pay $100 for an original aged 95 million years. But in the Orient, Chinese, Mongols & Russians decided that Dr. Andrews was getting $60,000 a dozen for the eggs, and a fortune for the big bones. When he returned to Mongolia he found grafters plaguing him at every turn. He generally bullied them out of their demands...
Among the most effective works exhibited was a still life Fétiche et Fleurs by Palmer C. Hayden, which won Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $100 for excellence in painting. An appealing Head of a Girl in plaster by William E. Artis won another $100, the John Hope prize in sculpture...
...government decided to distribute Mariannes to all the communes of France, held another competition. This time Jean-Antoine Injalbert was the lucky man. Thousands of plaster copies of his Marianne, a broad-browed, sharp-featured young woman in a "liberty" cap, have been sent all over the world. To the government they seemed quite satisfactory until last year when one Jean Mistler was Under-Secretary of Fine Arts in the Paul-Boncour Cabinet...