Word: wax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...
...photographers to snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...
...surprised that you too should become confused, considering the subject with which you arc dealing, but knowing the pride of the Charlotte people I am certain they will wax quite indignant over this lack of familiarity with their prize city...
...Also on exhibition was a rug showing Indian ponies woven from the carefully sorted undyed wool of white sheep, black sheep and their intermediates. There were also portraits of Chief Sits-In-The-Fall (No. 1) and Chief Sits-In-The-Spring (No. 2) painted in a new experimental wax resin technique...
...seven generations the Hidalgos have been encausticists. Several Catholic churches in Mexico own today wax figures molded by Luis Hidalgo's great-great-grandfather. Luis Hidalgo uses no molds, carves directly in blocks of beeswax without any preliminary studies, guards a secret process that enables the figures, once carved, to resist a heat of 110° Fahrenheit without melting. All that he will say about it is that it is a mixture of four acids...