Word: waxes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although most members of the class of '44 will never have to sell floor wax or washing machines, chances are that every single one of them will have to sell himself some time. Winning friends and influencing people may be passe, but it is still important to know how to get someone to do something you want...
...They took us to quite an extensive valley where 100,000 Armenians were killed before us. Seeing that immediate death awaited me, I took the blade of a pen knife which I had stuck to my hair with wax, and cut the rope which tied me to the other nine...
Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor...
Masterminds of the New Friends are Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
Apprehensive Republicans steeled Alf Landon for the dangerous lunch. Collar askew, pants rumpsprung as ever, the Kansan appeared at the White House, reappeared almost two hours later, said: "We talked of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings." "Cabinets and kings?" asked a reporter. Cabbages, said Mr. Landon. He went back to his hotel room, there dictated another vigorous blast against a Third Term. Mr. Roosevelt could have national unity, he said, if he would at once renounce Term III. This statement went big with all G. O. P. leaders, drew a laudatory press...