Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 14, under Cinema. Linda Darnell's age is given as 15. Louella O. Parsons' column in the Aug. 20 issue of the Chicago Herald & Examiner, gives her age as 17. The studio for whom she works gives her age as 19. Which is it? ETHEL WAX Kenton, Ohio...
Last spring Billie Holiday went to the Manhattan studios of the Vocalion Company, which has her under exclusive contract, to make a batch of records. One number, which she had been singing at a new downtown hotspot called Café Society, she particularly wanted on wax. Called Strange Fruit, it had been written by a libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion...
...aviators examined, Navy Dentist Lowry found that 83 had abnormal closure of the jaws. Most of them were older airmen and 33 of them had ear troubles. His remedy was simple. From wax impressions he made dental splints, bits of form-fitting vulcanite, which fit snugly over lower molars and hold fliers' jaws in proper position. Because normally these are needed only during flight a pilot can carry his in his pocket, slip it between his teeth before takeoffs, leave it in his locker after landing. Dr. Lowry said they work...
Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...
Some ten years after the late Thomas Alva Edison first recorded the human voice* on tinfoil in 1877, he sent the foregoing jingly "phonogram," on a wax cylinder, to Colonel George E. Gouraud in London...