Word: teethed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified, Gučret could not help admiring her vitality...
...Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics and much horse backing at Fairfield, Conn., where he is a master-of-hounds and keeps an airplane), President Palmer's policy has been to market standard and recognized medicines under their own names and advertise the Squibb as a trade-mark...
...picked his teeth with a pine tree. He spat ponds of tobacco juice. Tussling with his foreman, Hels Helsen, he trampled down an oldtime plateau until all that was left were the black hills of South Dakota...
...goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
...sitting there, with twenty good teeth...