Word: dentalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Adolf Hitler was dead again, a week after a refugee reported seeing him in Silesia (with a triangular mustache). His onetime dentist said, after studying a dental journal, that he was practically positive the Russians had Hitler's jawbone in custody...
...Chicago landlords were being offered the following "inducements" by apartment hunters: free dental care for life, a refrigerator, a television set, a year's free voice and piano lessons, a set of bathroom fixtures, contact lenses, an outboard motor, $500 worth of interior decorating...
...illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson would be playing Johnson; Menjou (in a double-breasted vest) is rather more Menjou than politician. Only Lansbury, whom Metro has long dieted on lean parts, does any real acting...
...Sidney Burwell, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, which administers both schools, said, "The need for medical and dental practioners and research specialists is such that we are determined to keep our opportunities for education in these fields open to able men from all economic levels and from all parts of the country. With that aim in mind, we have given careful thought in our new program to scholarships and loans. Funds available for scholarships will be more than doubled next year...