Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Stacy Woodard, 39, co-producer with his brother, Horace, of scientific cine-shorts (The Struggle for Life, The City of Wax); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Woodard was photographer of the documentary The River...
...richest in Manila. In terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...
...arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine is not the "Oh My Darling" ditty, but just another Ellington vehicle by his arranger, Billy Strayhorn. On both sides Ben Webster and Rex Stewart are presented with several grooves of wax, which they use to excellent advantage. On Clementine Rex blows a fine solo, exploiting the valves on his trumpet in the style he set in his Boy Meets Horn exhibition of a few years...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...
...with the blood of the beasts that had been sacrificed on it during the night. . . . The colour of spilt blood is not properly a colour, it is in itself discoloured, it is a visible display of putrescence. In every crevice of the red-brown rock there had been stuck wax candles, which now hung down in a limp fringe of greasy yellow tails, smeared with blood...