Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basis of the Lenz Process is the ancient art of tire perdue (a refinement of the secret process of Benvenuto Cellini). A figure is modeled in wax, which is in turn enclosed in a mold. Heat melts the wax out, and metal is poured into the aperture. Available for the first time last week were many of Alfred Lenz's secret refinements...
...dismantled while newspaper critics clamored for a fuller public exhibition of the same works, hoped that it might tour the country. Fifty years ago a painted brown plaster Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace...
Everyone knows that an etching is made by scratching lines through the wax "ground" on a copper plate with a needle, then biting the exposed lines into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler...
...25¢ admission, visitors saw a complete chronological history of the U. S., reproduced" with marble, paintings, trinkets, dresses, guns, Sheraton tables, Chippendale chairs, bedrooms (in Paul Revere's bedroom are two cradles. Married thrice, Rider Revere was the father of 16), chandeliers, Indian beadwork, violins, and a group of wax figurines, modeled and garbed to represent late ladies whose husbands had a hand in molding Chicago's history...
...confusedly through Gothic Yale Saturday, of course he drank cocktails with very smooth Elis, but, unexpectedly, he met Radcliffe after the game in a Harkness study. She was drying her shoes before the fire, and as she wriggled silken toes all was confessed. Not ships and sealing-wax were the topics of conversation, not the game, for Radcliffe felt very bad on that point (she had been there with a Yale man) but Harvard men themselves were dissected and improved. What she said will best be left unrepeated. Harvard men were the subject of Radcliffe's conversation, and the Vagabond...