Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sooner or later all European authors of note visit America, then return home and wax literary about what they have seen. Mr. Lennox Robinson is no exception and the dramatic fruits of his trip to these shores is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club in Brattle Hall in a play called "Ever the Twain...
...Roman Catholic church in Queens Village, N. Y. one night last week twinkled 1,000 wax tapers, clutched by 500 devout Catholic husbands, 500 devout Catholic wives. In solemn unison 1,000 lips moved over the words...
...bricks with air drills and then to replace defective material with a substance of an improved type. The new material is believed to be a mortar mixed with paraffin which is placed in the cracks and then heat applied by coal burners in an effort to melt the wax which, they hope, will then spread around the bricks and form a protective film against the driving of the rains...
...cool, thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range in size from a few hundred to 50,000 mi. across. They wax & wane in cycles which average 11.2 years, although the last two cycles covered hardly more than ten years each. As a cycle progresses the sunspot zones migrate from 30° north and south latitude to 16° in mid-cycle; the last survivors hug the equator. What interests laymen most...
...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...