Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is handsome, in manner friendly, affable. Above broad shoulders, he carries high a well-shaped head with a shock of white hair combed back into a pompadour. Smooth-shaven, his Roman features have been burned dark by Iowa sunshine. A quick engaging smile reveals gleaming white teeth. Not at all the hayseed type of legislator, he wears conservatively cut grey sack suits, feels no embarrassment in cutaway and silk...
Thumbing one's teeth is, of course, much more polite than thumbing one's nose. At the second Hague Reparations Conference, last week, Chancellor Philip Snowden of the British Exchequer thumbed only his teeth at his adversaries from across the Rhine, even-tempered German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and meek Finance Minister Paul Moldenhaur...
...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...
...Edgar Welch. Founder of the company, Dr. Welch was known up to his death in 1926 as an ardent prohibitionist. His discovery, with his father, of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice"* led him to abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. High points in his career were: member, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; delegate, General Conference of M. E. Church (four times); trustee, Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua, N. Y.; president, town of Westfield. N. Y. (six times); Prohibition Candidate for Governor of New York...