Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever...
...look at the thread holes. When true pearls are drilled, the skin at their poles remains flat and smooth. Imitation pearls are built around this hollow core, which therefore is considerably larger and has perceptible lips. Other proofs of true pearls: they are not easily frangible (imitations are only wax-filled glass balls); being organic, they are dulled and ultimately dissolved in vinegar's mild acetic acid (imitations dull but do not dissolve...
Those not scientists, however, have only a skimpy idea. So, since natural history museums should educate as well as collect, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan had Curator Roy Waldo Miner reproduce in wax and glass a cubic half inch of pond life. The exhibit was opened to the public last week...
...Significance. Author Lewis's Villon is not wax, nor is his fifteenth century Paris papier mache. Himself a man of energy, contemptuous of hot-house estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...
...Established 1844, makes tags, labels, crepe paper, paper napkins, paper boxes, jewelers' cases, sealing wax, glue, mucilage, ideas for festival gimcracks...