Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
...bundle 1.000 healthy men who have no particular fondness for reading into one huge hall with nothing much else to do, they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled...
...monthly magazines for like causes; the boycott of all drugstores because of the frank display of contraceptives in the windows of a few; the boycott of all picture galleries and museums because of the nudes in some; and of all department stores on account of exciting underwear and wax models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis...
Chris Olsen's first contribution to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan was a wax bedbug, 15,000 times life size. When a vacancy occurred in the Living Invertebrates Department in 1916 Chris Olsen was given a regular job, added submarine painting to his sculpture and magnification. Last week when the Museum gave an exhibition of art works by staff members the public had a chance to see Chris Olsen's latest paintings...
...vampire in his grave is to bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...