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Mouth habits leave permanent and identifiable marks on the teeth, observed Dr. Ryan. He listed some-Nervous habits: toothpick biting, fingernail biting, grinding teeth, clenching the jaws in sleep, thrusting the tongue against the teeth, lip biting, biting on the ear pieces of eyeglasses, biting paperclips, pencils, fountain pens; Occupational habits: thread-biting in sewing, pin-&-needle habit (dressmakers), holding nails in teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones...
...meant to Chinese converts. When Chinese women sang hymns, "everyone sang as quickly and as loudly as she could. . . . No one sang the tune, but only his own. . . . The old lady next to her rocked back " forth squeaking in a high falsetto, gabbling at a terrific speed, her long fingernail following the characters down the page. She finished ahead of all the other singers, slapped her book shut, and sat down in triumph. . . ." While her husband, his zeal and his absentmindedness both increasing, preached his way about the country, Carie stayed home, learned how to be a good housewife...
...Budapest, Count Edmond Zichy of aristocratic lineage challenged 13 members of a swank sporting club to duels. Reason: they had expelled his wife. Reason: they had caught her in a game of rummy marking the joker by scraping her hennaed fingernail across...
...navy news, the Prime Minister's eyes began to weaken. His fashionable Physician Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford. first attended to a minor ailment, a hard, pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London at once without waiting for Parliament to rise in August...
...generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their histamine. The histamine dilates the blood vessels in the neighborhood and at once initiates healing. To illustrate, Sir Henry scratched his hand with a fingernail, exhibited the red weal which quickly rose...