Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass. . . . I painted the head in yellow and black stripes . . . the mouth red . . . the ears blue...
...extent that last year they lost $250,000. The New York Legislature went to their rescue last month, less to shore up a sagging sport than to provide the State with a new source of tax revenue. Last week, Governor Lehman signed a bill which pulled the remaining teeth out of the Hughes anti-betting law by permitting money to change hands at the track and betters to sue for their winnings...
...entire automotive industry with their strike. But the efficacy of their new walk-out was minimized by the fact that their season's peak is past. As Detroit motor plants roared toward the close of a 400,000-car month, A. F. of L. leaders gnashed their teeth with the realization that their advantage over the employers was slipping. Soon their talk of an industry-wide walkout would lose its bite. Easy-going Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President to settle the industry's collective bargaining problem, infuriated the labor organizers...
...terrified Schmidt sisters back to wander for three nights about the house with its two reeking corpses. On the fourth day Georges Sarret returned with 26 gallons of sulphuric acid in the back of his car. The bodies were crushed in the bubbling vat until even the bones and teeth had dissolved, then the thick sludge that had once been Louis
While playing backgammon in the garden of her villa at Juan-les-Pins, France, Maxine Elliott, oldtime actress-beauty, was nipped on the ankle by her pet monkey, Kiki. Furious, Queen Elliott had Jester Kiki's teeth pulled out. Next day Queen Elliott, appeased, took gory-gummed Kiki for a walk...