Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger, undisclosed purpose. Was Cardinal Villeneuve carrying a message to Pius XII from Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? Cried the Vatican: "Fantastic!" But observers noted that when Cardinal Villeneuve went in for his hour's talk with the Pope, he carried a bulky envelope sealed with five wax seals. He came out without...
...dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...
Thomas Eakins (rhymes with makin's) lived & died (1844-1916) without enjoying or soliciting artistic honors. In last week's show he was commemorated in 88 of his works, chiefly oils plus four of the little wax figures he made to help him with his sculptural paintings, and a few of the charming, swift sketches he always made in oil, even for his watercolors. One of these paintings, Salutat, represented his famed boxing series, which he painted before gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series...
...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...
Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, in Eng land on a camp-tour of exhibition boxing matches, had his mahogany-carved features measured for wax by London's Bernard Tussaud, of the great French wax-figure family...