Search Details

Word: dentistly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Some of them are particularly ardent dancers and even become professional dancers, despite or perhaps owing to their frigidity. Others are sculptors, potters, nurses or thieves. If they are not doctors or dentists themselves, they 'happen' to attract their dentist, whose advances then fill them with horror. Some have an affair with a spy or have in some way been associated with espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Psychology of Witches | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Dental Powder. In Paris, after he fell asleep in his dentist's waiting room, Amedee Picart awoke to find that the dentist had locked up and gone off on vacation, was forced to call police to let him out of the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Oedipus Complex, a jolly dentist assures his patient he'll whip out a bad tooth "in a couple of shakes." He takes a couple of shakes; the tooth breaks. "So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig. He assaults the tooth "with something like a buttonhook." Another piece breaks off. "We'll have to saw," cries the delighted dentist. While the tooth is sawed, button-hooked, drilled and shaken, the dentist, dropping his guard for an instant, admits to the patient that he (the dentist) has suffered hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. P.'s Pleasure | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Angeles, the National Association for Better Radio and Television, an earnest organization headed by a dentist's wife and staffed by eleven housewife "panelists," put out its sixth annual ratings of juvenile TV programs, condemned 31 out of 67 as "objectionable" or "most objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Violent & the Bland | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...care for mentally ailing students the Sorbonne has pitifully inadequate resources. On the "Boul' Mich'," a dentist's office is a psychological consultation center after hours (Saturday afternoon and after 6 p.m. on weekdays). Manned mainly by psychiatrists−who are called psychologists to avoid upsetting students who cannot face the reality of their condition−it dealt with 72 patients in May, still had 36 last week although vacations were beginning. Six miles from the city's center, at Sceaux, is a 15-bed university home for more serious but still "benign" cases. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: La Maladie de Boheme | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | Next