Word: wax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wax hand was placed on a table and a spectator was asked to choose a number and slowly count to it. When the number was reached the wax hand emphatically stopped the counting by a sharp...
...they do so by their titles, not their names. Thus, invitations and dinner cards say: "The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson," or the Chief of Staff and Mrs. Summerall." This formula appears truly remarkable when applied, down the line, to "the Chief of the Oil, Fat and Wax Division of the Department of Agriculture, & Mrs. Jones...
Made of a tin box, an iron pipe, a pinch of gun powder, a box of matches, sandpaper and some wax, the "bomb" turned out to be a "practical joke...
...onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found it to be by a modern Britisher...
...case has taken an unusual turn in that the Grevin Wax Works insist that they possess the only tub in which M. Marat died. They therefore demand that the American disclaim the authenticity of his possession and regard it merely as an eighteenth century bathing device. This the American will not do, for not only has he paid four hundred dollars for his treasure, but also he owns the keys to the room in which the relic was installed. Besides, as the efficiency of such an appliance can in no way compare with that of the creations of today...