Word: plastering
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Next day Premier Quisling, less at ease than when canoeing (see cut), screamed that the bombs which showered death and plaster on his Party rally came from "murder planes." The Norwegians laughed harshly. From eyewitnesses the story spread all over Norway and Europe that in the dash for the air-raid cellar, lo, Vidkun Quisling led all the rest...
Boston bootmakers are turning out 249 standard sizes of Army shoes-plus special lasts from plaster casts-giving the U.S. soldier the world's best military...
...With Plaster dropping from several conspicuous places in its price ceiling, the OPA stopped shuffling its feet before the advances of aggressive wholesalers and retailers on August 11 and announced plans to raise most limits set in May by the General Maximum Price Regulation. This move, which will increase the housewife's budget, as well as the cost of war production, has long been predicted as inevitable in view of the ridiculously small powers so far given to Price Administrator Leon Henderson...
...first-rate controversy." This critical whack, laid on last week by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue plaza before Manhattan's Public Library. Gloomed Sculptor...
...piece combo plays differently than Scabby Lewis at the Savoy, and differently than Red Allen or Frankic Newton, whose bands were recently in Boston. They play old Dixieland tunes like "Fidgety Feet" and "Oh Baby," and blow the roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with a tone like molten silver. Not when Gene Schracder bangs...