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...other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from his mouth; I have seen another put in a dentist's chair and held there while the dentist, who seemed to enjoy his job, ground down a sound molar with a rough burr." Sometimes prisoners are threatened with death, shot at with blank cartridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jogging Prisoners' Memories | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...morning last week as he was on his way to the Supreme Court at the Capitol, Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford stopped in to see his dentist. He seated his big strong body in the dental chair, complained of a toothache. The dentist found an ulcerated molar, extracted it. As Justice Sanford started to get up an attack of vertigo sent him sprawling to the floor. Alarmed, the dentist called a physician who administered a hypodermic stimulant which failed to relieve the judge's mortal distress. Unconscious, Justice Sanford was carried to his home on Connecticut Avenue. There, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Passing of Sanford | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

Blaine−"is peerless in blatancy. . . . On a heavy gold chain across his paunch he sports a large Elk's molar, a gift from admiring lodge brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progressives Flayed | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station, two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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