Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rummaged through Italy's ill-kept libraries (they don't know what treasures they have, he says), pieced together unpublished cantatas, pages of which he found scattered through several countries. He once corresponded for five years with a Philadelphia dentist before getting to see a Handel letter that the dentist owned. He unearthed ten unknown Handel manuscript librettos in California's Huntington Library...
...tradition and superstition. Ghosts as well as whores and gamblers haunted its streets and houses. The ghosts still do. New Orleanians swear that two waxen-faced Yankee soldiers parade through the corridors of a building on Constance Street, singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Deschamps, the dentist, hanged in the 1850s for murdering a girl he was trying to hypnotize, still haunts an apartment in 714 St. Peter Street. The Devil's own head hung on a gable in a house on St. Charles Avenue until gable and house were torn down...
...camera in "Lady in the Lake," and started a new screen fad. In his latest work, he shifts emphasis to his mouth. The chance of a new craze developing is doubtful; but there are enough close-ups of gum-chewing, envelope-licking and other oral shennanigans to fascinate any dentist. The average fan may not be as overwhelmed, but by close observation he may discover whether Montgomery has his tongue in his cheek. The quality of his performance makes it seem likely...
...Dentist Maurice E. Peters of Boston struck the convention keynote when he cried: "We seem to have developed to the stage where the exodontist takes them out and the prosthodontist puts them back, not only decoratively, but quite efficiently and expensively. But is that dentistry? . . . Why should people go to dentists for dental care and end up with artificial teeth...
Vienna-born Dentist Bernhard Gottlieb and three colleagues at Baylor University reported a treatment which they claimed was even better than sodium fluoride: a solution of zinc chloride and potassium ferrocyanide, which plugs microscopic cracks in the teeth against bacterial invasion...