Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the serpent enters the Garden: the harvesting machine is invented, the rail-road arrives, sinister-looking capitalists in plug hats turn up. Years pass; the farmer prospers, the rascally capitalists wax fat, the nation's fibre is weakened. Then comes 1929: the gorged capitalists expire of a gut-ache, the farmer is ruined and goes back to plowing...
...spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore. For the past 45 years, methodical Spinster Densmore has periodically left her old family home in Red Wing, Minn, to traipse over North America salvaging Indian war whoops and love songs, which she stuffed away in her oldfashioned, wax-cylinder recording machine...
...London's famed Madame Tussaud's all the great characters of history are exhibited in wax. On Broadway this season much the same thing is being done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...liquor by the glass was provided by a stratagem whereby the ingredients were given away, and a reasonable sum was charged for transportation from bar to tables. The Rice was also headquarters of the Executive Council. In & out the doors of the Council's rooms passed tiny, wax-haired Matthew Woll of the Engravers; smart, tough Dan Tobin of the Teamsters; Dan Tracy of the Electrical Workers; smart, smooth John Coefield of the Plumbers. Still a councilman by virtue of his long service, snow-haired Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison ambled about in lonely dignity...
...have pressed the U. S. on these 30 wax surfaces are a perfect team: van Ackere, short, excitable and voluble; Friedland as tall, quiet and phlegmatic as a Frenchman can be. Friedland is a producer and businessman who speaks no English whatsoever; van Ackere is a showman and artist who speaks English with no accent whatsoever. Together they work fast and smoothly. M. Friedland's most cherished souvenir of U. S. culture, which he says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard...