Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their annual convention in Atlantic City last week, U. S. dentists were as ignorant as ever of the cause of decayed teeth. Three explanations went the rounds: dirty mouths, improper food, unbalanced endocrine glands. None or all give the complete answer, according to the most conscientious research minds of the American Dental Association, 10,000 of whose 40,000 members attended the convention...
Humble for this ignorance, dentists pointed with pride to a new method of spotting the first speck of decay. Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel...
...were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried away an impression of Fascism "as disagreeable as bones that stick in the teeth." The first requisite for a pleasant tour, says Madame Ichikawa, is to know the words for "thank you" and "lavatory." Much interested in intimate conveniences, from what she could make out in going through historic castles over Europe she "often wondered if such noble personages as Elizabeth and Maria Theresa urinated...
...Scout regatta, one evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near...
Just what the Belgian Premier had afoot was a deep diplomatic secret. The only rumor into which Washington got its teeth was that there was a plan in the making to have the U. S. take a direct interest in the Bank for International Settlements and supply some capital that could be used for stabilizing currencies abroad. But whether it was this or some entirely different plan, the mere presence of M. van Zeeland was enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French...