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Word: escandon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Carp | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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