Word: teething
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first issue under its new staff the Lampoon is fortunate in having a strong subject for its theme. The Messers. Blackburn and Company have sunk their teeth into this morsel with appetites appropriate to their journalistic age. The Reading Period is past, but the clouds have not disappeared over the horizon, and the Lampoon staff is concerned with some of the results...
...Brother Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
Because of such negligence the U. S. has been buying about 120,000,000 false teeth each year. The situation would be worse, were it not for the years of dental education spread by the 65,000 practitioners in the U. S. (and Canada). Those who were at Chicago last week urged factories and labor unions to establish dental clinics. They applauded the recent formation of the Society for the Promotion of Children's Dentistry. Dentists make money fixing teeth; they can make as much keeping teeth healthy, and that is their wish...
...pursued beyond the door the brazen prowler merely transferred his activities to the North Entry where he continued to loot the wealth of the Gold Coast, leaving at about 5 o'clock in the morning. Hours later walling and gnashing teeth resulted from an inventory of student stock and the "goodies" worked late into the day carrying out the torn hair of those who had to cancel all weekend festivities due to financial embarrassment...
Today there will be sounds of music and dancing of Juniors in the streets; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for those who are cast into outer darkness, for the draw has been made. The little brown envelopes have been drawn out of the pillow case or other receptacle used, and from the fingers of the benevolent committee honey has dripped to some and gall to others...