Word: wax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnificent as only Eucharistic Congresses can be? French soldiers, Zouave bands shrilling and drumming native marches, cardinals, archbishops, bishops (100), priests (4,000), natives in burnouses, 5,000 little singing children in white (many of them recent converts from Mohammedanism), Orientals, Europeans, 400 altars, 200 tons of wax candles, the Papal colors white and yellow everywhere, visits to the plaques and monuments of some 30 martyrs, the Papal Bull opening the Congress read in Latin and French then broadcast in Italian into radio microphones, Papal Legate Cardinal Lepicier speaking formally in Latin, informally in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish...
...Vick Chemical Co., one of the U. S. Big Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last as well as definitely the biggest word in U. S. cosmetics and drugs. Some one of his goods...
...Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...
...visited the U. S. Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow...
...Conductor. In the 33 years since his death, Brahms has achieved an immense popularity, especially with the musically meticulous. Perhaps for this reason Boston let itself wax particularly enthusiastic over last week's Festival. But there was another reason: Conductor Koussevitzky. For he is the Boston Brahmins' high priest and can do no wrong. He is handsome, distinguished in appearance, voted by many the Best-Dressed Man in Boston. He is an excellent musician, the world's greatest virtuoso on the double bass as well as one of the great conductors. His past has been romantic...