Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...Mystery of the Wax Museum...
Connoisseurs of mystery fiction may well despise The Mystery of the Wax Museum because it breaks the rule that everything must be explained at the finish. Otherwise its garish ramifications should be pleasantly exciting. It shows how a sculptor of wax statues (Lionel Atwill), apparently driven insane when his effigies go up in smoke, decides to reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that...
...After the wax is melted from the mold, the latter must be cleaned out with hot mercury (another Lenz secret) leaving the interior razor sharp...
Unavailable for another two weeks are the exact formulas for Alfred Lenzls alloys, his special modeling wax, the compositions for his molds and the famed Flexible Flask. On his death these, with a number of diagrams and explanatory sketches, were left to his brother and two sisters who in turn deeded the process (which might have brought then a great deal of money from commercial foundries) to the American Artists Professional League. The A. A. P. L. in turn handed the Lenz Process to the Sculpture Society as an organization better equipped to make use of it. All the final...