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Word: teethes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week in their yard in Los Angeles, John Henderson, 11, and his brother Leo, 9, were playing with their shepherd dog Bing. They noticed that he was foaming and frothing at the mouth, just as they did when they brushed their teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Songs & Skins | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boulevardier | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...livers to keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which cooks must closely watch. For most people it is more important than a dish of blood-renewing liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food for Rich & Poor | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...dashed the ship on a coral reef. She began to sink. Captain A. M. Stanton had to get his men ashore. First the crew tried to lower a boat. Monster waves lashed it, smashed it to bits. When a second attempt failed, an officer took a line in his teeth, dived into the swirling sea. He swam for half an hour, at last reached the beach 150 yd. away, crawled up cut and bleeding to make the line fast. It took three hours to get all hands ashore. Some of the crew's 15 Solomon Islanders could not swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anglican Shipwreck | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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