Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Castles & Teeth. IlDuce. who will open the Stresa Conference in the tall-terraced, fairylike palace on Lago Maggiore where Napoleon dallied for some months with Josephine, sternly warned his people to expect little from the Great Powers' conference. "You must," the Dictator told Italians, "build no castles of illusion...
...valets packed statesmanly baggage rumors vapored in Paris and London that "perhaps at Stresa teeth can be put into the League of Nations...
...Hepburn's Hydro bill might be a colossal bluff. Having put the fear of God and the Premier into the hearts of the private power companies in Quebec. Hydro might yet negotiate new contracts at reduced rates. With that to his credit, the Premier would quietly pull the teeth from his toothy measure...
...more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion of the drawing, scaled to one-fifth life size. The creature was 30 ft. long, stood 17 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder, had a tough loose-folded hide, long legs, thick neck, small, blunt head, enormous incisor teeth. A vegetarian, Baluchitherium ("Beast of Baluchistan") probably weighed 20.000 lb., ate 500 lb. of herbage...
...ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk to a signboard for nine straight mornings. Each time you walk backward nine steps and forward nine steps, cussing God and Jesus Christ with every breath...