Word: teethed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demanded the operation occurred 16 years ago. At that time Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda, then just an ordinary thief, with two friends, entered the farmhouse of Emilia Muniz Garcia, 63. Together they trussed her up, gagged and robbed her. The gag shoved Signora Garcia's false teeth down her throat. She choked, died...
...month ago the escaped Rabano, now a dapper, perfumed Cuban racketeer, was arrested in Tampa, Fla. Five Cuban judges gravely reviewed the 16-year-old story of Emilia Garcia's false teeth, sentenced Ziolo Rabano to death by garrote...
...Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...
International Security. "The problem of the League of Nations is the prob-lem of Security," began Messiah MacDonald quietly. Recalling that during his short previous term as Prime Minister in 1924 he sought to secure the peace of Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle...
...Germany's Reuss-Gera Prison, one Schaarschmidt, deprived of tools, chewed his way out through solid oak bars. When captured his teeth were found mere stumps, his jaws ape-size...