Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers...
...beamed ceiling in the lecture hall, which has been brought to this country from a French church, dating from the 16th century. On the side of utility there are ventilators under each seat in this same hall, sound proof walls, made so by a special kind of porous plaster used in all the rooms, and indirect lighting at all times in all the galleries. The entire building is of fireproof construction...
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...
That gypsum is used for the base coat for plaster, because it is adhesive, strong, and resistant to abuse; for tile in building partitions which need not bear weights, because it resists fire and water; for plasterboard or wallboard (pre-shaped at the mills) because it resists fire, does not warp and witstands abuse and cold and insulates against temperature changes...
Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...