Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike of bond salesmen and newspapermen, refusal to improve his ill-fitting false teeth, a fondness for maxims like: "I don't have time to make up anyone's mind...
...societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than in the U. S. During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie of the Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World, Get There America Benefit Association, Prudent Patricians...
...fierce battalion of pork-seekers took it to a committee-of-the-whole and earmarked $505,000,000 for flood and drought control, roads and public works. A hot battle began. With earmarkers in control, the House began to approve pork amendments one after the other. Baring their teeth, they passed an amendment knocking $2,000 off Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins' $12,000 salary. Administrator leaders had to filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being passed. Finally, assured by Leader Rayburn that he had just talked with the President and could promise "an adjustment fair to every...
...pump and to manage his epiglottis so that nothing but air is sucked into his lungs. Otherwise, he would certainly develop pneumonia and die. To reduce the danger of germs getting into his lungs, his two Chinese nurses wear gauze over their mouths and noses when they brush his teeth, shave him, wipe his nose, or deal otherwise with his head...
Incredibly wrinkled, wasted to less than 100 lb., old Mr. Rockefeller was alert to the end. His hearing was unimpaired, his sight good, most of his teeth sound. He liked to chat on the latest in finance or politics, kept in touch with oil business almost daily. About the only thing he refused to discuss was Rockefeller Center. He thought his son's Manhattan pile was close to sheer folly...