Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teeth. At London's St. Mary's Hospital, a group of dentists and a distinguished colleague, Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming, tried penicillin lozenges for mouth infections. In a number of cases, reported Dentist E. Wilfred Fish in the Journal of the American Dental Association, abscessed teeth and gums cleared up nicely; penicillin also was helpful in an operation in which two infected teeth were extracted and replanted in the same sockets...
...started in 1903 when John Drew, an actor, presented his souvenirs and library of theatrical books which he had amassed during his career. Never an institution to look a gift horse in the mouth, the library has since built this humble beginning into a respectable, or rather, an imposing reminder of the glory that was the Theatre...
...colleagues. . . . Senator Taft [seeks] to line up ... the pinks and the reds and the off-brand of the political life of America to further [his chances] for the presidency. . . . [He is] the blah blah blah of the Senate . . . a young mockingbird just out of his shell, all mouth and no bird...
Esquire's foot-in-mouth pressagent Russell Birdwell immediately started lighting up the red fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him the word that Esquire had changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry...
...West rushed this terrible news to the outside world. Covering the main deck with swathes of freshly cut grass, Pilot Marsh took aboard some 50 of the wounded survivors, ordered his engineer to get up a head of steam, drove his vessel from the mouth of the Big Horn to Bismarck, Dakota Territory, in 54 hours- at the unprecedented speed of 13 miles an hour. The local telegraph office had the news within minutes of the Far West's arrival. The next morning the world at large had it-Bismarck, D.T., July 5, 1876: General Custer attacked the Indians...