Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mere words - yet they contrasted strongly with the malaprop tongue-wagging of British Minister of Dominions John Henry Thomas who recently flung in Mr. Bennett's teeth that Great Britain knows Canada is looking out chiefly for herself, that the Mother Country will do the same...
...exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed...
Russia's Roosevelt. "Glimpsed from afar Stalin seems cold and harsh," cabled Correspondent Lyons, "but at close range his outstanding feature is a broad smile almost as full of teeth as Roosevelt's and, like Roosevelt's, overshadowed by his shaggy mustache. He speaks slowly . . . with broad, oriental gestures. . . . His mind seems automatically to organize its materials into simple forms and words comprehensive to any working man. . . . Stalin and [War Commissar Clemence] Voroshilov [present during the interview] addressed each other by the familiar 'thou'. . . . Intimacy and informality pervade [Stalin's] entire establishment . . . immaculately clean...
Police shouted threats through megaphones. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Friends attempted to hoist food to him by kites and the police cut the string. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Police threatened to light a fire under the chimney. Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and continued to sit on his chimney. Police sent up a tasty fish stew, flavored with sleep-inducing drugs in the hope that the famished Kiyoshi would partake of it, fall off. Finally the owners of the factory, realizing that for the honor of Tokyo Kiyoshi must come down, agreed to reinstate the discharged workmen. Police screamed...
...Author. For some months Author Bennett acted as house-detective for the Savoy Hotel, spying on the life of his monstrous love. Fat. sloppy-looking, with prominent teeth, hanging lower lip, a wave of hair, droopy eyes, Arnold Bennett would have been more conspicuous, not so well cast, as a maitre d'hotel...