Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University's dental college, Dentist Daniel Ziskin has decided that concentrated lemon and grapefruit juice, both highly acid, do indeed soften tooth enamel. (Orange juice, less acid, seems to be safe.) But acid is not the only villain. The real damage is done by brushing acid-softened teeth with a stiff brush or gritty dentifrices. If not followed by too vigorous brushing, drinking diluted citrus juices once a day is perfectly all right, says Ziskin...
...give an added regal polish, there were lessons in French (from a French countess), German, art, and dancing. As time went on, the Vice-Provost of Eton, erudite Clarence Henry Kennett ("Shee-Kay") Marten (later knighted and promoted to Provost), was called in to brush up the Princess' constitutional history...
...tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going to throw the fight: "Naw, bet on the other guy . . . I'm going into the tank." Then he always gave them the same brush-off: "See ya later...
...interest in the graphic arts, which has been moribund since 1933, got a shot in the arm recently with the organization of the Harvard Art Association. Not since the esoteric Society for Contemporary Art died in the depths of the depression has the scene looked so hopeful for undergraduate brush wielders...
...Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that the paper will like, a color that looks...