Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birth of the Museum should interest them, too, for that was only surpassed by its very dramatic death. In 1841 the Museum on Bromfield Street was opened as a sort of miniature Madame Tussaud's wax works. Light musical entertainment was soon added and in 1843 the first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous...
...shilling, one is permitted to view the wax effigies of Nelson, Napoleon, Wellington, Lincoln and many another celebrity. At the door, stand two policemen who are standing jokes. Bobby No. 1 is asked a civil question, but declines to answer. Sometimes the inquisitor gets angry before he discovers his mistake. The other bobby is less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile...
...exhibition, one gets a glimpse of a chalk-faced friend from the Folies Bergeres with gross, pursy mouth and smudged eyes; apaches that glare and glide in the galvanic paint as if rehearsing for a cinema; a group posed, with the sterile absurdity of wax figures, about a table; a bristling gendarme, unable to decide whether to arrest a reveller or have a drink with him; a deputy compounded of a too-small black hat and too many brown whiskers; a lady with a green shadow upon her face...
...this document is bound to be even more amusing. Sunday schools will chant it in uneven chorus; Mencken will burn it with a violent hatesong; abread it will be read, if at all, with infinite self-complacence over the naivete of those Americans, Meanwhile, its authors are likely to wax prosperous in the Chatauquan manner...
...more pride than a tramp; . . . no more moral sense than a wax figure; no more sex than a tape worm...