Word: plastering
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...Plato rests on his knee (the founder made his money by selling mules to the government, and, it was currently reported, could not read, so the Plato, I fear, was an artistic fiction) - hung on the fourth side, and about it were three or four chromos and a plaster bust of Clay...
...SENIORS and Fourth-Years decided to help plaster the Second Church with ice-cream last Monday evening, by invitation of Mrs. Prof. White. The combined attractions of a Sociable, ice-cream, and staying out till nine o'clock, are enough to make any class benevolent. Of course the arrangement proved a success in all directions,"- Oberlin Review...
...plaster a church with ice-cream is indeed a novel style of decoration. Was it done inside or out? We presume outside, and that internal application was reserved for the "Seniors and Fourth-Years" themselves. We are glad to hear that the experiment of sitting up till nine o'clock after eating ice-cream was a success...
...taken, so it had to come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does not, my last hope is blasted, and all that remains is suicide...
...BURR OAK young lady entered a drug-store lately, and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clerk showed her a roll of sticking-plaster. - Tyro...