Word: waxing
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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...
Some skiers prefer a wax base. The best waxes for this purpose are: Ostvye, "glister," or "Skaresmoring." A fine coating should be applied, which must be rubbed into the wood with the hand, and then rubbed smooth with a cloth. It should be allowed to cool and harden before applying the surface wax...
Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a tough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...
...throbbing Hub, our attention was drawn to a rather meretricious display in the window of a corset shop. Being a disciple of the Freudian school, and having no inhibitions whatsoever, we slyly sidled over to the window to have a look at the very shapely and attractive wax models displaying the latest in feminine scanties...