Word: troweling
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Taking a tiny silver trowel with a mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building...
...Bancroft bellowing a prayer to heaven in the pouring rain upon the death of his son, there is a long scene of his wife dying in child birth, there are innumerable maudlin, sentimental shots which have no place in any picture and when laid on with the trowel of Mr. Bancroft they become unthinkable...
Spreading a blob of mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban...
...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
About two years ago able Correspondent Hubert R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post was visited in Berlin by a bald Russian with a trowel beard- Vladimir Orloff, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. From him Reporter Knickerbocker obtained a number of letters purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents (TIME, July 22, 1929). After a trial somewhat embarrassing internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly...