Word: dentist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting a local factory that would employ 250 white women-only to find that the entire county could not supply the workers...
Died. Guy Goldthorp Butler, 74, an Iowa politician who was known as "the shirtsleeve senator" of the state's upper house, where coat and tie is the rule, once a practicing dentist whose five-year career as tooth puller to the royal household of King Rama VI of Siam ended in 1921 when an auto accident injured his arm; of a heart attack; in Des Moines...
...going. In the service department, he leafs through service orders to see if there is any pattern of complaints that suggest a weakness in a new car. He even drops into the repair waiting room, applying his sunny personality and speeding up someone who has an appointment with the dentist. Says Moran: "There's a million things that nobody asks about but me." Moran, who neither smokes nor drinks, keeps in top shape by leaving the office every day at 2 p.m. for a half-hour. 44-lap swim at the Illinois Athletic Club...
...again, in a chartered DC-6, for New York and a peaceful night away from the social demands of the capital. He got his final fittings for his inauguration outfit (cutaway, grey waistcoat, striped pants, topper), ordered a few business suits at $225 apiece, got a checkup from his dentist ("No cavities'') and hopped on the plane for Washington again...
...familiar that he jokes about how the lips of his audience move with him as he goes along. He finds comedy in everyday trials-a frustrating conversation with a child who keeps hanging up the phone, a speck of dirt in a glass of milk, TV commercials, a dentist ominously taking X rays. Perhaps best known is his airline routine ("Coffee, tea or milk?" chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because of the recent disasters, the sketch has been retired, but many airlines still use the record during stewardess training. Berman builds his long routines forward...