Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment with my dentist," said Lillian Greneker in Manhattan last week, ''and I was impatient to leave the beauty parlor. I watched the manicurist drop the orange stick to pick up the emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool...
...first two seasons, the track, which cost $1,000,000, made $1,350,000 for its promoters, chief among whom are Cinema Producer Hal Roach and a onetime San Francisco chain-parlor dentist named Charles Strub. Last year, Santa Anita bettors wagered more than $25,000,000, of which the State took $1,000,000. Last week, bets on the Handicap alone were $396,553, a record. Santa Anita's backers have put much of their profits into improvements. This year they are spending $25,000 on Peruvian olive trees in the paddock, Bird of Paradise plants...
...were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from...
...story of That Girl from Paris, which it took four screenwriters to concoct, deals with the transatlantic romance between a Paris singer and a U. S. bandleader (Gene Raymond). Its real purpose -that of punctuating a series of closeups of the star which could be exciting only to her dentist-is transcended occasionally by moments of brash comedy contributed by the _ band's mercurial drummer (Jack Oakie) and its sad-visaged Communist pianist (Mischa Auer...