Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might conceivably result in stirring up retaliatory measures or vene war with us, if the belligerent were seriously compromised by stringent trade regulations. Nevertheless, it is hard to see how any extension of the President's influence could mollify this objection if neutrality legislation is to have any teeth at all. A neutrality law on the books before war looms on the horizon certainly retains more of the essence of neutrality than a presidential policy formulated during the course of a conflict...
...Jessie Matthews, sings something called Don't Give a Good Gosh Darn with an enthusiasm that betrays only too clearly her exhilaration at the thought that she must sound just like Ruby Keeler. Through the rest of the picture, Director Hale concentrates unhappily upon his wife's teeth, which are not her best points, instead of her legs, which are. Good songs : Lookin' Around Corners, May I Have the Next Romance With...
...World's Greatest Fakir." Mr. Atlas, roared Mr. Hoffman in his Strength & Health, "does not have a 17-in. bicep as he claims. He does not have a 14½in. forearm. He does not have a 47-in. chest. He cannot pull six autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot run ten miles in an hour and he cannot tow a boatload of hysterical women a distance...
...Little Rock last week, Lloyd Darnell explained a bill of his which the Arkansas House of Representatives had just passed. "Everyone looks at a mule's teeth to determine his age," said Author Darnell. "Under my bill, mule swappers can't file a mule's teeth [sharp] and sell you an ancient animal on the claim that he's a youngster...
Paralleling modern technological improvements, Nature too is speeding up. A Canadian lad has grown his fourth set of teeth at the age of twelve, and tulips are up already in Buffalo, New York. Science marches, on, and one Dr. Gamboa has discovered that the strength of a woman's handshake increases when she is pregnant. God knows...