Word: wax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most 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...
After asserting that this body "enjoys powers which no political ruler in the civilized world would dream of claiming," Mr. Shaw proceeded to wax indignant against the Council for blacklisting not only osteopaths but "any physician who dares to assist an osteopath as his anesthetist...
...spoke in modulated Spanish vocables, which his interpreter translated into the harsh foreign tongue. Suddenly he seemed to wax eloquent. The reporters sensed that something dramatic was coming. He waved his manicured finger tips at his silk shirt, his gold wristwatch, his well tailored suit...
...When the Queen Bee moves forward, the workers back away in a circle. Doubtless the Queen Bee blushes and the workers titter; but doubtless also both sides enjoy it and wax in virtue...
Ships and shoes and sealing-wax, cabbages and kings?it may not be long before all of these have each a chain of stores to vend them...