Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
Three weeks ago, a prosperous Salisbury, Mo. dentist, Dr. H. H. Brummall, wrote to his fellow Missourian Harry Truman, suggesting that he withdraw from the presidential race. The reply, which was released to the press last week, was not only indicative of the state of the President's mind but also characteristic...
Adolf Hitler was dead again, a week after a refugee reported seeing him in Silesia (with a triangular mustache). His onetime dentist said, after studying a dental journal, that he was practically positive the Russians had Hitler's jawbone in custody...
...society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...