Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...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...
...from the H H Society, of which Mr. Rich was an active member in "Ye olden time." The occasion of this assembly was a private reception given to his friends, that they might visit his art rooms (The Cluny). Mr. Rich has brought from France the art of bronzing plaster casts, and he had arranged in his rooms, with admirable taste, statues, busts, vases, etc., exhibiting the beauty of the preparation. The name Cluny is taken from the Paris house of that name, which is the main fountain; of which Mr. Rich is a "wee sma'" stream. His guests wish...