Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wax (by Julian Thompson, adapted from the German of Walter Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...
...wax poetical over your swell editorial on the Eliot House tutors' table...
That such an attitude should exist is due chiefly to the fact that it is admittedly difficult to wax as enthusiastic over the same lecture the tenth or even the fifth time as it was the first or second. But what no one except the student can understand is that for him it is the first time; he has never studied just this material, he has never read this book, he has never heard this lecturer, and he is making a sincere effort the first few weeks to enjoy it. For him there is everything to gain, and nothing...
Died. Henry ter Linden, 70, president of Imitation Food Products Co.; by his own hand (revolver) ; in Brooklyn. For restaurants, stores, photographers, practical jokers he made painted wax onions, cuts of beef, doughnuts, ice cream, banana splits...
...Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have known that the beautiful hues which result from burning film are a lot more fun to watch than a movie which should still be in its pre-natal stage. Nevertheless, those people who enjoyed Frankenstein should not miss this picture; there are several...