Word: teething
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revenge. Dolores Del Rio can stamp her foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift...
...Among his works was the revival of medieval guilds: the Guild of St. Luke, for physicians; St. Apollonia (tortured by having her teeth broken out), for dentists; St. Genesius, for stenographers, secretaries; St. Zita, for domestics; St. Agnes, for high school girls; St. Imelda, for factory girls; the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, for telephone operators...
...signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who arranged for Chile and Peru to resume diplomatic relations but the 49-year-old Tacna-Arica Question is absolutely no nearer settlement than...
...President Coolidge went to an Army dispensary and prudently checked on his health by having his teeth Xrayed. The presidential teeth are in excellent condition, announced Presidential Physician James F. Coupal...
...prize fighters grow old, they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...