Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoken against Ortiz happened to come to Havana. Another Cuban named Wycliffe Grafton was with them when Ortiz called. Said Ortiz, smiling, "Well, boys, I have you here at last." Grafton, claiming U. S. citizenship, was freed. Five days later the other two were found dead, their teeth knocked out, their eyeballs ruptured...
Died, Henry Andrews Cotton, 64. director-emeritus of the New Jersey State Hospital, pioneer of modern methods for treating the insane; of a heart attack; in Trenton, N. J. Dementia praecox, melancholia and other mental defects he approached from a physical standpoint, seeking infections in teeth, tonsils or bowels as potential causes. When he assumed control of the State Hospital in Trenton. N. J. in 1907, he shocked physicians by removing all straitjackets, anklets, wristlets, straps. Friends claim that because of his researches the recovery rate among his patients leaped from...
...soon to the simpleton grin. He turns everything to use. He wrestles off the edge of a cliff, wrestles on in midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle. Mickey pursuing, champs the teeth ferociously, suddenly gives out a lion-like roar. Mickey is a mouse but he acts like...
Someone struck him in the mouth, jeered: "Will you swear now?" The jurist toppled to his knees. His teeth felt loose but he managed to reply: "No, I won't swear...
That afternoon Leader Fewkes took a delegation to City Hall, talked with Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly. He agreed to call off further demonstrations for a week, Mayor Kelly assuring him that he was trying to get the Illinois Legislature to put teeth in tax-collection laws. Later, teachers applauded when Leader Fewkes told them: "I am willing to go along with Mayor Kelly. He is a fighter. He didn't tremble when he was talking to us as some of the so-called bigwigs did." Next day Leader Fewkes and his committee were to have had lunch with...