Word: incisors
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PERELMAN'S subjects range from reminiscences of the Marx Brothers to an encounter with a singing lady dentist who plants a radio transmitter in his incisor and calls him up when she hears him eating a forbidden bagel ("Lock Lips-Monkey-shines in the Bridgework"). Very rarely does he have any real satiric intentions. In one piece, though, "Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella," there is a hint of very good-natured satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers...
...Yale expedition to the Fayum desert. But it was not until the specimen had been returned to Yale and extracted from its rock casement that Simons realized that it was an un usually complete skull of a primate, lacking only portions of its top and bottom and four incisor teeth. "Not only is the skull some eight to ten million years older than any other fossils related to man," Simons said, "but it is better preserved than any that are older than 300,000 years...
...greatest literary figures, who wrote so warmly of the poor and oppressed, flocked to the defense of Eyre. Thomas Carlyle could not speak of Jamaican Negroes without being insulting: "Sitting with their beautiful muzzles up to their ears in pumpkins, imbibing sweet pulps and juices; their grinder and incisor teeth ready for every new work while the sugar crops rot." Only slightly less violent were Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin and Charles Dickens; Novelist Charles Kingsley proposed that Eyre should be elevated to the peerage...
...permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion of the drawing, scaled to one-fifth life size. The creature was 30 ft. long, stood 17 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder, had a tough loose-folded hide, long legs, thick neck, small, blunt head, enormous incisor teeth. A vegetarian, Baluchitherium ("Beast of Baluchistan") probably weighed 20.000 lb., ate 500 lb. of herbage...
...Perry, N. Y., Herman Strutter showed incisor marks on the stump of his wooden leg, told his neighbors that while he slept it had been gnawed off by a beaver...