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Giles's mother's mouth comprised, from left to right, a tapering upper eyetooth which eroded a millimeter a year into the black pool of her gum socket, two long wedge-shaped frontals which overlapped like tightly crossed fingers...a lower incisor as yellow as sunshine off dusty grass, an El that resembled a squat, burnt-out matchstick, and a lonely lopsided masticator which jutted out between her lips even when they were closed...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Parade of Horrors | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

...native son who is now a successful Hollywood writer, cases Fiddlersburg for material for the film, and simultaneously seeks the springs of his own perjured promise. A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Aeolian Cave | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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