Word: dentistly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come about that the flexible tariff, like one's elbow, appears to flex but one way and that way is upward. Consequently, the flexible tariff is a subject that provokes the flexible laughter of its critics. Why this lopsided situation? . . . The Tariff Commission is like a dentist's office, to which people rush only when they have a pain or an ache...
...Mexico City, one Islas Escandon, dentist, piled 400,000 human teeth in his window, advertised in glaring posters the ease with which he extracted molars, eyeteeth. A rabble, styled by approving officials as "a group of students," questioned patients of Islas Escandon, then advanced upon the quarters of this quack, drove him forth, shoveled his 400,000 teeth upon an ash-heap...
...anger of the populace was fanned until it was afire. Clashes occurred. Foreigners were fired upon, one American, Dentist Thomas G. McMartin, was wounded and his horse shot from under him. U. S., British and Italian warships sailed to the port, landed a force of marines to cooperate with the Japanese and other troops in protecting foreign life, property and the essential public services. Machine guns cleared the streets and, after dark, armored cars patrolled the thorough- fares. Meantime, a general strike had been ordered, numbers grew from a few thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against...
...Hector Turnbull. Days at the vicarage, all identical, were punctuated by the Rev. Hector's heavy and regular meals, heavy and regular tread, heavy and regular sermons, tooth troubles and grumblings over money. Occasionally, the Rev. Hector noticed the second maid's ankle. Occasionally, he went away to a dentist. That ankles and teeth were connected in the life of a churchman with so proud a bearing as the Rev. Hector's, none would have guessed; and when the Rev. Hector fell heavily dead one day in a disreputable city rooming house, his two elder sons-a middle-class doctor...
...mediocre dentist...