Word: bridgework
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...
...oddity of the occasion impressed the audience as it depressed the chorus, it cannot sanely be considered a precedent for future generations. Nor can the novel method of resisting religious discipline adopted yesterday in the same college when gum erred from its primrose path to the ever moving bridgework and settled into the locks of the chapel doors...
...Perfervid Professor watched with a pleasure even sensuous the slow drop of the curtain and the slow rise of the lights. "Delightful", he murmured, "Delightful." The Person In The Next Seat smiled, revealing bridgework and the brilliance thereof, smiled and nudged the Perfervid Professor...
...bridgework grinned. "It's all the same to me", it gestured, and went out to smoke. Sic transit--but that again is Russian...