Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition legislation can be or ever has been enacted without advice and consent (and usually whipping) from this office. There ruled the late great Wayne B. Wheeler (heavy-lensed glasses and crooked mouth). There reigns now his successor F. Scott McBride, General Superintendent and Legislative Representative of the League...
...Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill...
...means of some 90 models of Eskimo teeth, Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Harvard Dental School Museum, has proved that eating a strictly meat diet is the ideal way in which to keep the human mouth in a healthy condition, and that it is due to the fact that civilized people do not eat enough meat that they as a rule have decayed teeth...
...Fernald says "Studying the models of these peoples' mouth in the interest of anthropology and ethnology, as well as from an orthodontic standpoint. I consider extremely valuable, as much more data, can be obtained from models of a living person than from skulls. For instance, if the models show that the gums are apparently firm and tight around the teeth and have not receded that alone indicates to some extent a healthy mouth. From the fact that the arches are so even and well developed I should say that these people with so large arches are not mouth breathers...
...believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...