Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
Skidless Shine. A tough, nonslippery floor wax is being test-marketed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For use on both hardwood and linoleums, the Safety Floor Wax contains tiny, gripping particles of Du Font's Ludox (colloidal silica) which snub the forward motion of a shoe hitting the shiny floor, bring it to a safe and sure-footed stop.. Price: $1.29 a quart...
...razor-thin," said the doctor. "It's thinner than that. It's not there at all. Hate is simply a counter-attitude to love." Nobody demurred at that, and the ministers and their wives went on to talk of other things-not shoes and ships and sealing wax, but exhibitionism and impotence, sexual deviation and married love...
...sent to the village of Tobiki with orders to teach the natives democracy and to build them a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. He brilliantly bungles his assignment: rather than march them glumly in formation toward their desired goal, he lets them mosey to it down their own primrose path. They wax prosperous selling sweet-potato brandy to the U.S. armed forces; they grow affectionate when allowed to build a teahouse instead of a school. There is not only joy in Tobiki, but, at the final curtain, notable satisfaction in Washington. A genial satire, the play blueprints the superiority of the human...
...Magician (Columbia, 3-D), is a follow-up to the money-making House of Wax (TIME, April 20), again starring Vincent Price. Explains a Columbia official: "Everything pops out of the screen in this one. Price is shown cutting off a girl's head with a buzz saw. He is burned to death in a big steel box with a glass window...