Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windows, partly covered by ripped shades, were grimy with soot. The plaster on the walls and ceiling was cracked. The room was cold; the 39 men and one stout, grandmotherly woman kept on their coats as they sat down in rickety, straight-back chairs. A mild man with thick glasses tacked a small piece of paper on the outside of the door. On it was printed in pale red pencil: "I.W.W. Convention Hall...
Save France! Up from the vernal south the gold-and-plaster Virgin moved triumphantly. Twentieth-Century France hailed the religious procession, a war-delayed commemoration of the Virgin's 1,300th anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...
...Mood. In Manhattan, cinemaddicts shuddering at Dr. Terror's House of Horrors were not too much surprised when 200 square feet of plaster ceiling ripped loose, crashed on orchestra customers' heads...
...corrective, the physicians put both legs in plaster casts for two weeks, then fitted their patient with seven-pound steel braces from hips to heels. Gentle exercises on a bedboard were begun...
...began to be an artist in Druskiensiki, Lithuania, when he was only eight. His earliest works were carefully painted white in imitation of the plaster casts he saw at school. At 18, Lipchitz hotfooted to Paris, became the youngest member of the Cubist group, quickly developed the muscular, semi-abstract style...