Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls reported for duty at 9:30 a.m., postured in bathing suits for photographers, paraded, sang, danced, tootled saxophones in the first "talent" competitions. All gaped at acrobatic Evelyn Townley ("Miss Buckeye Lake, Ohio"), as she leaned over backwards, snatched a handkerchief from the floor with her teeth. They were still going at ir 11:30 p.m. when the American Beauty Ball started...
...Faise Teeth for Washington...
...first state, and is extremely valuable, and the Paul Revere prospect, said to be the only copy in a private collection. Revere also contributed several fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine set, specially made by Revere, and it is to these, which weighed one pound, and pulled his jaw quite out of shape, that the Father of His Country owed the dour expression of his later life...
...coated the skull with modeling clay. He spread it thinly, following the contour of the bone evenly. Gradually he applied other layers, feeling his own jowls & forehead for guidance. The length of the nose he determined by measuring the distance between the bridge and the roots of the upper teeth: its contour by following the curve of the nasal bone. To get the fullness of the cheeks he held a pencil from the cheekbone down to the jawbone and allowed a little for normal rounding. He used the same instrument to determine the set of the eyes, holding it slantwise...
...brows he determined by beginning at the inside corner of the eyesocket and following around the upper edge of the bone; the fullness of the lips by the protrusions and recessions of the upper and lower teeth...