Word: paraffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working in her laboratory with a leakproof solution of gasoline and paraffin when a spark exploded it. Died. Sadao Saburi, 50, Japanese Minister to China, onetime Counselor of the Japanese legation at Washington; at Miyanoshita; by his own hand (revolver). Apparent cause: depression since the death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director...
...encased in mittens that were sewn to his sleeves, tied to a chair by a rope of which the knots were sealed with wax, concealing no instruments, he was placed behind a curtain. In front of the curtain was a table on which were placed a pail of hot paraffin, a bucket of water, a pencil and a sheet of paper with three names for identification. When the room was darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain...
Vita Glass and Corning Glass are true glasses. Celo-O-Glass is composed of wire-mesh screen filled with an apparently celluloidinous material. Flex-O-Glass is a thin, fairly loosely woven cloth treated with a paraffin-like substance...
...does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...
...carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...