Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Pink String and Sealing Wax stars Googie Withers, who was none too careful about that cleavage (see cut). The Hollywood Codists-who convinced themselves that Hollywood's Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice were morally clean-have raised eyebrows over the British picture's theme: premeditated murder...
...Armstrong blues vocal on "Long, Long Journey" should have been something to write home about because the old master of delayed action rhythm and bottom-of-the-well tonsilar gymnastics had not sung any blues for the wax machine since the Decca New Orleans album. For some unknown reason, however, although Satchelmouth's vocal cords seemed to be in the best of form, the record doesn't register. Arrangers of all-star recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough...
...doll was cheap, with a flimsy dress, a wax face, a scraggly wig. But Monica, the Colonel's little daughter, loved it. The Colonel, when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica...
...field of art, in no country . . . are questions of taste and talent passed upon by persons so totally lacking in culture, so bereft of knowledge and judgment as are the producers of Hollywood. . . . They have an extraordinary nose for what the public wants. So it is that they wax rich while contributing to the intellectual impoverishment of the nation...