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Word: eyeteeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constantin Brancusi is a man who leaves his critics shuddering, growling, bearing eyeteeth at each other, mumbling through cold masks of horror. His defenders on the other hand shout their quick praises in a complicated language. Famed Poet Carl Sandburg has written this poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...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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