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...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
...Paul Reverings apparently recorded on wax (safest way for Nazis to know exactly what a commentator will say), Chandler has sneered at ''Wee Willie Willkie," awarded to the British Empire the "Muddle Medal." to F.D.R. the "Meddle Medal," referred to the U.S. as "Uncle Sam's flophouse for European down-and-outers...
They amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...
Alfred S. Romer, for assistance in making wax plate reconstructions of the development of limb muscles of higher vertebrates preparatory to the publication of results...
...years cash prizes have awaited the spiritualist medium who could produce any single phenomenon-spirit-writing on slates, voices from the beyond, table tippings, wax casts of ectoplasmic hands, etc., etc.-which could not be duplicated and explained by science or sleight of hand. Last week, to the standing offer of $10,000 made by the Universal Council for Psychic Research, the Scientific American added $5,000. Purpose: a renewed drive to expose a growing trade in ghostly fakery. As the world crisis gets worse, more & more fretful folk have fled to seance rooms, as they have also to astrologers...