Word: stucco
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...evening the crowd had come trickling in. You showed your ticket at a brass gate in the stucco wall of the Sesqui-Centennial, a mile from the stadium. Between the Centennial Gate and the Stadium long narrow buses with red lights, electric motors and canvas roofs plied to and fro, silent as lizards. They were crowded. Diplomats, politicians, millionaires, sailors, Negroes, sportsmen went by. Vincent Richards, the tennis player, and his wife, and a raincoat. A huge black preacherman in a woman's straw hat. Mortimer Schiff. Mayor Walker...
...remote from all those attributes of worldliness which make Harvard Square--Harvard Square. The buildings of the School of Business Administration face the freshman dormitories with sufficient aggressiveness and vigor, and allow him who would decry over-emphasis on brick the pleasure of gazing upon pastry facades in stucco. And what is more to the point, the seniors who would rest their worried heads on goodly hair mattresses may do so at the expense of the University. Ring out, ye bells (and there is one which can ring out--in Dorchester) and rejoice ye people! The University is prospering...
...tennis courts, just inside the corner gate of the Soldiers Field inclosure. The old cage, built more than 30 years ago, had long outlived its usefulness, and the new cage will be 160 feet square, large enough for even modified outfield practice. Outside the structure will be of gray stucco, to match the Stadium...
That the crude rock is crushed to nut size, then pulverized, then heated to drive off moisture, when it is ready for commerce as plaster paris or as stucco...
Cities. Descending from his train, the traveler finds that the stucco-plastered brick buildings of Russia have been smartly replastered; and have lost the ragged-wallpaper air of early Communist days. Many new buildings are going up: two and three story structures, laboriously raised bit by bit by clever workmen, as in the days of Peter the Great. The Orthodox Churches, generally seem well cared for by their parishioners, despite Government opposition...