Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kulaks lost their battle, were wiped out. At the height of Stakhanovite celebrations in Moscow, Dictator Stalin said grimly that in the Soviet transport sector, anti-Stakhanovites have had their teeth knocked, in and been booted from their jobs. He clearly indicated that he means to enforce speedups throughout Russia by the same methods of OGPU terror which have forced 85% of all Russian peasants who were not wiped out to join collective farms...
...clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes her phobia is gone. Remarkable sight: Miss Rogers in black wig, spectacles, false teeth, which make her so thoroughly unattractive that RKO's publicity department forebore to release "stills"' of her thus disguised...
...Francis ("Nig") Miller, a Zeiss Contax camera, turned him loose on the city to get "candid" shots. Bold little Cameraman Miller went about snapping the usual pictures of backstage doings and unwary citizens. His best layout was ''Houston at Lunch Time," displaying Houstonians munching salad, picking their teeth...
...shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised by makeup, got out of the hospital and lay down again in front of nervous Tarzan. Guards with rifles were on hand in case Tarzan...
...amusing incident in connection with the discovery of the records was the finding of a cigar among the pile of papers. Close by was a note bearing the inscription, "This was the last cigar which Edwin Booth ever held in his mouth." The teeth marks were still apparent, for, though forbidden by his doctors to smoke, the dying actor was not to be denied the pleasure of keeping the cigar in his mouth...