Word: lockjaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheeks tattooed a permanent pink and their lips scarred into a stiff cupid's bow have become problems to the physician. The needles with which the tattooer punctures his customer's flesh are often unsterilized, the dyes that he soaks into the needle-pits polluted. Frequent results: gangrene, tetanus (lockjaw), leprosy, amputation, tuberculosis, blood poisoning.?Marvin D. Shie of Cleveland...
...This symptom seems to the uninitiated like lockjaw-an entirely different disease...
...Howard Konkle, was stricken with lockjaw. "If he lives," prayed Realtor Konkle, "I will work for the rest of my life to make money for the missionaries." The youth survived.* Last week his father announced that he will build a 5,500-room hotel which will tower 800† feet above Manhattan's street level. Ten % of the profits derived from this remarkable edifice will go to missionary work...
Parisian Nights. If these words penetrate to Buffalo Bend and Lockjaw Junction, the inhabitants are hereby warned that the title of this conception might better be: "So This Isn't Paris." It is full of Apaches and helpless American girls wandering the streets; it is full of stealthy smiles and lizard looks; it is full of just what a cinema of Parisian low life would be full of. Of course, the head Apache (Lou Tellegen) has a noble soul and rescues the American millionaires who wanted to sculp and got lost one night...