Word: bridgework
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...Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...
...caustic review of State of the Union, TIME [May 3] said that Katharine Hepburn's God-given Hartford accent was an "affectation" sounding like a "woman trying ... to steady a loose dental brace" which "limits her range of expression." This affected "bridgework" voice did not seem to limit her range of expression in Woman of the Year, in which your reviewer said she was "just right" [TIME, Feb. 16/1942], nor in The Philadelphia Story, in which he praised her to the skies [TIME...
...harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
Satan at the Seminary. They came in droves. And when Sister Aimee asked them to give in the name of the Lord, they gave generously in silver, gold, jewelry and bridgework. Once a month, Aimee later admitted, she took up a collection for herself. In the Temple's heyday it averaged $7,000. From the Lord's share she was soon able to build the $3,000,000 Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism. From this seminary each year 200 or more evangelists-to-be were graduated-girt in shining armor and brandishing swords against a capering Satan...