Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Confederate John C. Smith, 108, of the 46th Georgia Regiment, told how during the battle he reached into his mouth and removed the bullet that had knocked out two of his teeth, paused again to clap mud on his skull where another bullet knicked it, and fought on. Dr. Capers C. Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., 91, barked at Secretary of War Harry Woodring: "Give me your hand. I ain't going to bite you." "I'm sweet 16 and never been kissed!" shouted Yankee Daniel Daffron, 92, of Forest Grove, Ore. Said his harried attendant: "Have...
...armed guards. In Paris, Father Franklyn Laws Hutton, ever anxious about the happiness of his "dear little girl," talked things over with her second titled husband. It was after such a conference last week that Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, waylaid by reporters in the Ritz Hotel, hissed through his teeth: "I detest reporters...
...nearly $20,000,000 of the fortune which her rugged grandfather had amassed from his 5-&-10? stores. Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California. When the debris was cleared away, every news...
...musical public attend the festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music. The audiences (made up of composers, executant musicians, esthetes, theorists, critics, future-boosters) do not go primarily to enjoy the music, but to keep from missing something. Cheers are as scarce as hen's teeth, but hisses are as common as chickweed...
...skeleton is in stratified clay of an ancient glacial lake. This poor girl, whose teeth are quite projecting, was drowned in the waters of this lake over 20,000,000 years ago. A dagger is beside her body. This may be the first great American tragedy...