Word: wax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News had 27 color pages and some of the world's most brilliant whiskey advertising...
...ticket!" Well, he won't have that line this year, but the photographers can not fail to come through. At his side will be Mrs. Smith, wearing a corsage of orchids. She's had those same orchids every election day since her husband was state assemblyman; they must be wax. And who ever heard of Mrs. Smith at any time during the year but election day? She's probably blown up for the occasion, like the dragons in Macy's Thanksgiving parade...
...entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice by a floorwalker, a couple of corpses and Ted Healy as a police sergeant, fumbling helplessly with a service revolver. At the root...
Until, 56 hours later, when he had dipped the flesh-colored clay in wax, inserted glass eyes and dressed the victim's original hair, which providentially had been recovered near the skull, he had before him the snub-nosed, sullen face of a temperamental Irish girl...
...although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made to fit any given eye perfectly. Last week he told how he solved it. Wax was molded roughly to the shape of the eye, to which it was then applied, left for ten minutes. Body heat and eye movements softened the wax until it conformed exactly to the eye curve. The eye was then irrigated with ice water to cool and set the wax...