Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slip on a Banana by M. Dorothy Doyle, a realistic wax banana draped delicately with a miniature woman's slip...
...Evansville, Ind., Harry Lang of Harry Lang, Inc. (which manufactures lubricants, owns Evansville Home Oil, Inc., Dixie Dance Wax, Inc. and a string of four gas stations) pays State and Federal income taxes, social security, encumbrance, personal property, gasoline, corporation, capital stock, truck wheel, chain-store taxes. This year these taxes will take $30,000, 20% of Harry Lang's gross. Last week Harry Lang announced: "I just wrote the President that I'd be willing to do it the other way around. Let him own the business and let me run it for him for five years...
...world over. Wife of a suave and wealthy surgeon, Margery does not use her singular gifts to turn over a profit. Her control, who speaks and thinks for her when she is entranced, is "Walter," a deceased brother. Some years ago Margery asserted that fingerprints mysteriously produced in dental wax were Walter's-hence ectoplasmic. A furor broke loose when Prof. Harold Cummins, Tulane University anatomist, testified that the fingerprints were those of a living Boston dentist...
About the time that Peter Stnyvesant's $24 island and began to realize there was something west of the Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...
Anyway, I want to thank you and your wives and others for using Johnson's Wax. Keep on using it and the chances are that I will then be able to afford a few desks and chairs for the new office, and some furniture for my new home-if Mr. Wright doesn't get them completed too soon, which isn't likely...