Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even in the act of putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier buzzing about Tokyo in full Admiral's regalia. Such antics have their use. While Premier Okada has monopolized the spotlight, Finance Minister Takahashi...
...terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once he told his aide-de-camp, as they started for a celebration, that there would be no crowd, since his subjects did not like him. The crowd was large, but when the aide tried to cheer Albert by calling attention to it, the King remarked wearily, "Yes, there will...
...H.R.H. in welcoming to St. James's Palace the Council for Relations with Other Countries: "Better traveling facilities abroad since the War and an improvement in the manners and attitude of our tourists have done much to kill the baseless legends about us. All Britons do not have prominent teeth, nor do they all wear knickerbockers...
...plumpish figure looks far better in East Side gingham than in dainty drawing-room voile. When so directed, she can be as unladylike in speech as a baseball umpire. These qualities indicate a career that should remain top-notch long after Shirley Temple has lost her teeth and retired to live on her income...
Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...