Word: exodontia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers. He is a big, bald man, ponderous in movement, pontifical in talk. Son of a doctor and one of the few U. S. dentists with a medical degree, he is a triple specialist - exodontia (tooth-pulling), roentgenology (xray) and oral surgery. His dental constituents admire him for being on the staff of four Nashville hospitals, for working in his office 10 to 15 hours daily, for reading no books or magazines except those which "concern my work," for having "no time for civic interests...
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