Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...
...waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning on Muni as Napoleon to be concerned with the sentiments involved. Once all the wax Munis come to life in a dream and tell sleeping Caretaker Muni how to straighten out the interrupted romance of two young people who used to meet in the gallery. A lot of film is wasted on this romance. Dana Burnet's dialog is not convincing. Best shot: Chibou finding...
...Communists from the North -from hysterical Gastonia to calmer Charlotte, the mob subsided. Radical Labor, muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors...
...Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money in the call market), Port Alfred Pulp and Paper Corp. (owners of the town of Port Alfred), Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. (specializing in kraft [wax] wrapping paper...
...sculptor's friends maintained he was sent to the asylum on a false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was denied them. After three hours, the bewildered Dreyfuss, as his own chief witness, spoke of the time he was losing while he was incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward...