Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled phonograph with an old-fashioned horn from which a manikin's legs protruded at one end, at the other a plaster hand stretched over a revolving disc shaped to suggest the curve of flesh. In the dim light there was an optical illusion of the hand approaching but never quite reaching the flesh-curve of the disc. Title: Jamais...
...they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last Sunday night...
Shepherded by two officious French detectives, a crew of workmen invaded an ugly, yellow plaster suburban villa not far from Napoleon's Chateau at Malmaison last week and started digging under the front porch. Within 18 inches they uncovered first a white handbag, then the body of a young girl, fully dressed, doubled up like a jackknife. She had been strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France...
...Edward Horton compete for honors in the comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...
...victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning a recovery scheduled to take a year; and the ex-Kaiser was still safe in Holland...