Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing spastic paralysis (muscular rigidity). But Sylva was endowed with high courage. She learned to read, turned the pages of her books with her tongue. She used a typewriter by poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics by moving her face against lipsticks and powderpuffs. Her parents took her to the cinema in her wheel chair...
...once, Bernice stalled. Then she lacerated a telephone pole. Then, enough of this mild play, she decided, and off they went in a cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...
...last week to take his Irish temper to the Court of St. James, he had no fear of failing to get safely to his post. All the ship's seamen were members of the National Maritime Union, and presumably his sworn enemies, but their spokesman announced through his teeth: "Our members wall give Mr. Kennedy every courtesy no matter what they think of his attempts to wreck their union...
What the U. S. schoolteacher knows, reads, earns, believes and says has been elaborately examined and catalogued, but until last week no one had ever looked lim right in the teeth. Last week U. S. teachers were examined physically and mentally, from toe to cerebellum. The National Education Association reported on the results of examining 5,150 teachers in every section of the U. S. The report Fit to Teach, painted this composite picture...
...close of the special session of Congress the wages and hours bill was (1 passed by both the House and the Senate, 2 referred by the House to the Labor Committee for further study and revision, 3 completely revised so that it no longer "had teeth in it" and passed by a large majority in the House, 4 passed, quickly signed by the President, and then immediately declared unconstitutional, 5 killed by a large majority in both the House and Senate...