Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something did: the telephone rang a third time. Testifies Menuhin: "Deliberately, the Maestro got up, walked over to the phone, picked it up, and with one mighty yank he pulled it, plaster and all, out of the wall. All this without saying a word. Then, completely relaxed again, at peace with the world, he sat down and we continued to play the Beethoven concerto...
...present peculiar shape. Though the second story went untouched, an extension was tacked onto the southern side of the first floor, destroying the building's old symmetry, the old interior walls were knocked out and partitions were set up to carve put three smaller rooms. A couple of plaster statues were moved into one of these which became known as Harvard 1, but practically all of Harvard Hall's past glory had moved elsewhere, leaving only memories and five musty old classrooms...
Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
...deal rocked Hollywood to its plaster-of-Paris foundations. Harry Warner, speaking for himself and his brothers, Al and Jack, announced that they were arranging to sell their control of Warner Bros. Pictures to a syndicate headed by San Francisco's millionaire Real Estate Operator Louis R. Lurie.* The syndicate agreed to pay the brothers about $25 million for the Warner family's 24% controlling stock interest in the $161 million film and theatrical empire-once the biggest film company...
...blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...