Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
Impassive as wax, His Majesty gave ear. There had been another of those patriotic assassinations. The respected Army swordsmanship instructor, Lieut-Colonel Aizawa, after praying devoutly at the Imperial Family's Meiji Shrine, had called on the chief executive officer of the Japanese Army, Lieut-General Tetsuzan Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, and proceeded to run him expertly through the vitals...
...roll of a protuberant eyeball, an almost feminine mildness of tone, an occasional quiver of thick lips set flat in his cretinous, ellipsoidal face. It is not conducive to sound sleep to watch him operating on little girls, shuddering with sadistic thrills at public executions, or slavering over the wax image of Mme Orlac which he keeps in his apartment. One of the best scenes in the picture is the maniacal matter-of-factness of Lorre's drunken housekeeper who, finding Mme Orlac at the front door, takes for granted that she is the wax image come to life...
...school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly...
...first talkie, The Jazz Singer (which grossed $3,500,000), did in 1927. Less sanguine observers have suggested cause for doubt. The human ear, which accepted sound in cinema so readily, has been scientifically found to be much less sensitive and hence much less critical than the eye. A wax effigy, much more lifelike than a statue, can still be less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive eventually, were still timidly dubious last week. That it costs about 30% more than black & white production...