Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...
...amazement and confusion twenty minutes later, just as he was getting his teeth into his book, a smiling bus boy entered the Library with a napkined tray which he set down on the stool in front of the Senior. "The hostess says that your every wish is her command," the bus boy whispered huskily. "Any answer?" "Nope, no answer," stammered the red-faced Senior as he peeked guiltily under the napkin, then sneaked outside to gulp down his steaming order of griddles...
Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
...Music Hall's annual horselaugh, garnished with beer & pretzels. The tale of "a Harvard graduate trapped by sex in the purple sage," The Girl from Wyoming provides an uncannily false picture of the West in the days of Diamond Dick saloons, half-breed beauties with roses between their teeth, and the Pony Express...
Chasing wild geese is so unrewarding it has become a proverb. Ornithologists have long gritted their teeth over the mystery of where the Blue Geese (Chen caerulescens) go in spring. From their winter quarters in the secluded swamp-lands of lower Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...