Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemaddicts, was proved by the reception of the picture last week. Captain January smashed box office records in Milwaukee, Portland, Me., Dayton, Richmond, Cincinnati, Boston and Baltimore. Preparations for Shirley Temple's birthday were thus enhanced by the certainty that neither increasing age nor the loss of her teeth has yet hurt her prestige and that, in her eighth year, she was likely to exert an even greater influence upon the entertainment business and its patrons than she did in her fifth, sixth and seventh...
...recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
...present generation of U. S. Youth an unpromising lot. From Life Extension Institute, which had examined 100,000 young men, it learned that 75% suffer from "some sort of health defect." Its own Medical Committee, sampling, turned up 33% with diseased tonsils, 34% with defective vision, 50% with carious teeth. Blamed for this condition was Depression, which curtailed free medical care, recreational facilities...
...Bennett, you can't leave with those," roared Lawyer Powers, his cigar still clenched in his teeth. As he lunged for the boxes of proxies, the rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...