Word: wax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corsages for the Freshman Jubilee may be purchased at reduced prices, through the Wax Brothers floral company, it was announced last night. A Wax Brothers representative will be in Smith Halls Common Room between 12.15 and 1.45 o'clock, Monday, during which time, orders may be given. Corsages ordered at that time will be sent to the buyers on the day of the Jubilee...
...ball and eighteen men. Everything else is superfluous. But, superfluous or not, a funny bone and a what may be modestly referred to as a certain degree of journalistic acumen do combine to make what would otherwise be merely another baseball game something over which to wax ecstatic, and occasion for dancing in the streets, in short, an Epocin. And when the Epoch is one of an annual series, stretching back into infinity--or thereabouts--the result approaches that which young girls loosely term an experience...
...TIME, Feb. 22, 1926), long-haired, bespectacled Scotsman, who gave birth to his ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
...James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors to wax prolific...
Although Boston may have claimed at one time or another to be the hub of shoes and ships and sealing wax, it has never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline...