Word: wax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next to her " 'Tain't funny, McGee," the most reliable line in the weekly Johnson Wax act is the "deef" Old Timer's topper for Fibber's gags: "That's pretty good, Johnny, but that ain't the way I heerd it. . . ." The Old Timer...
...vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They let the characterization pass, wrung the gags unmercifully, but no one minded. A year ago Fibber & Co. were metaphorically down among...
...just as big a puzzle to Germans. The New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, quizzing some who had sat in on one of Welles's conversations with officials, unearthed a Nazi metaphor; Mr. Welles, they said, "seemed as objective, photographic and receptive as a wax disc...
...Fibber McGee (Johnson's Wax) told Gracie he has heard whispers about Dewey, Hull, Taft and Garner all heading for the White House. Were they just rumors? Said Gracie: "They...
White-maned old Frank Lloyd Wright, dandy of modern architecture (Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Johnson Wax Plant, Racine, Wis., etc.) told Los Angeles it was "a flagrant example of an opportunity that had no attention paid to it-the Great American commonplace...