Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will guard its contents. Peering through the non-shatterable glass the sight-seer will see, fastened to a silver rod, George Washington's false teeth, the lower set dangling from the upper by the little gold springs which held them in his country's father's mouth...
...surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...case rides an 18-in. model of the U. S. S. Akron. The Akron model was almost buried one day last week by the carelessly strewn hats & overcoats of Committee members who sat in silence around the big horseshoe table. Facing the Committee from a small table at the mouth of the horseshoe stood a stocky, curly-haired young man in an open-necked Navy blouse, with the crossed white anchors of a bos'n's mate on his sleeve. He was Richard Deal, survivor of the crash of the Shenandoah and one of three survivors...
...circus buffs the Flying Codonas really, artistically wind up the show, though Human Projectile Hugo Zacchini still hurtles clear across the Garden from the mouth of an inclined cannon to make the official finale. Zacchini is good, and this year his cannon is mounted on a silver truck. But he is a find, not an artist, not a circus tradition. His trajectories will not be charted after he is gone...
...dine. Wrote he: "When my novel was being kicked about from publisher to publisher, I desperately needed money for the first time in my life,-money for the skilled medical attention that would have arrested my malady [arteriosclerosis]. Now it is too late. . . . Success is ashes in the mouth...