Word: plastering
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...Wires, pipes, bellows and queerly shaped pieces of wood are strewn about in ordered confusion. It seems fitting that there should be an organ here to express in music the Wagnerian scenes of Lewis Rubenstein's murals, but I fear for the effects of its vibrations upon the fragile plaster casts of mediaeval saints...
...inspect a large cabinet in the nave. They beheld, behind glass, an illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent to Trinity by its makers, Diorama Corp. of America...
...better than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size and consistency as his famed Mr. Chips-with perhaps just a dash less salt in its makeup...
...Though plaster fell from the walls, the firemen tore down no partitions and broke no windows. Colonel Apted reported "No Damage." Seven engines and a "Black Maria" attended...
...parents at 11, Mr. Atlas by his own advertised account was originally a puny "no-account runt," a "sickly, skinny, run-down weakling weighing only 97 pounds." His inspiration came on a visit to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, where he was so impressed by the plaster-cast Greek heroes that he thenceforth devoted his life to his body. His present title dates from the early 19203 when Publisher Bernarr Macfadden was running beautiful body contests. Charles Atlas won so regularly that Mr. Macfadden finally abandoned the contest entirely. The inspiration for his name came not from the Brooklyn...