Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hofbrau. In his dark-paneled restaurant on 30th Street, Manhattan, he would tell proudly of the days when he had persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to eat pigs' feet and calf's head, when he had warned President Taft, a great steak-eater, against digging his grave with his teeth. In his palmy days August Janssen owned 20 Hofbraus. He spent $1,000,000 advertising JANSSEN WANTS TO SEE YOU.* But in 1921 Prohibition was withering the Hofbrau trade. And more distressing to August Janssen was his son Werner, a senior at Dartmouth. Father Janssen had offered...
...ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey...
...comparison is possible it looks as if the Mitchellmen's .273 batting average, compared with Pennsylvania's .220, will give them the jump at the plate, while the Quakers' crack fielding is going to make scratch hits and bases on errors as scarce as the well known hen's teeth on a duck farm...
George Blackwood will be out of the lineup when the Freshman nine meets Middlesex at Concord this afternoon. He was injured in practice yesterday when a ball was thrown in from the outfield which bounced into his face and knocked out several teeth. Blackwood has been catching regularly all the season, and his loss will be felt in bucking the Middlesex team this afternoon...
...English courts for violation of patent rights, asked 123,000,000 shillings (a shilling a fuse) damages. Vickers settled out of court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader asks, "How can such things be?" Attorneys Engelbrecht, Hanighen & Seldes point out that these sowers of dragons' teeth are mighty members of their countries' councils, control big newspapers and bigger banks; that their governments, which cannot afford to run state-owned arms industries, cannot afford to let their armorers go idle or elsewhere...