Word: waxen
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...favorite home of Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, ousted last fortnight as Austrian Vice Chancellor (TIME, May 25), is his family castle of Waxen-berg near Linz on the Danube. There he organized and drilled his original companies of the Heimwehr and there he kept for many years great stores of machine guns, rifles, pistols and steel helmets...
Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...toyed with countless queens and waxen dolls...
Have governments ever taken any steps to confiscate the business of the armament makers? Very few. In the early days after the war, Europe's government had small heart for had small heart for proceeding against their betrayers, even though the waxen seals on the Treaty of Versailles were scarcely hard before they were once again busy disturbing the peace...
...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...