Word: mouthwash
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...assistant business manager, went to jail for two years for stealing G.I. students' checks from mailboxes. In Des Moines, pretty Mrs. Opal Dixon was caught after she held up a bank by waving a hypodermic syringe and yelling that it was filled with explosives. It was filled with mouthwash...
...rarefied doings of the haut monde in his syndicated 'column, This New York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town...
Once his men were in Africa, Rommel made them as comfortable as possible. Each man got his own green bivouac tent, with a floor, and a pack containing a camp stove, solid fuel, eye lotion, mouthwash, body powder, washing sets, flashlight, billfolds. Rations included beer, coffee, tinned and fresh meat, lemons, potatoes, onions. Hospitals were never short of anything. At the rest camps in the rear there were beer gardens, brass bands, playing grounds, movies...
...hunch that a way to save teeth from decay might be to encourage the staphylococci by giving them an extra amount of urea to work on. So he made up a mouthwash of carbamide (synthetic urea crystals). The crystals are colorless and odorless, taste cool and salty. He gave the mouthwash to 100 patients to use on their toothbrushes, found that an increased amount of calcium was deposited on their teeth...
...fasting before Communion): You can gargle, or use mouthwash, or brush your teeth before Communion, and you do not need to worry about getting rid of every drop. . . . The fast can only be broken by something digestible, so if you chew your fingernails, there is no need to worry...