Word: teething
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockwell, who bounces his rubber teeth on the floor and gives little talks through his nose...
...there the parallel ends, for the fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...
...WALKS IN BEAUTY-Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel...
...humors has been employed, is, at first glance, obvious. In the old days, on make-up nights on Mount Auburn Street, cork helmits were a necessity much as they were in any British tropical outpost, that is, to keep those present from going completely under when their back teeth were floating. Under the new regime, however, it appears that at least the invaluable Bob Lampoon keeps semi-sober and acts in the joint capacity of managing editor and wash-room attendant, and that as a result a more palatable brand of humor is on sale at Felix's the following...
...interfere with the legislative branch of the government, he has let Congress ride roughshod over his opinions in nearly every important issue that has come before it. From the time of the passing of the Bonus Bill over his veto, both houses have had the bit in their teeth and have raced through a series of tax reduction, naval appropriation and other measures with complete desregard for his views. The "Big Stick" of Roosevelt's day has been pared down to a slim wand totally lacking in either persuasive or coercive powers...