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Word: teething (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman tried to tackle Ferguson, but the mad man, wet and slippery, kicked him away, kept his grip on the midget until she was dead. Fox got three more policemen; Ferguson fought them with chairs, a table, his teeth. They had not subdued him when, suddenly, he stopped fighting, fell dead of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...post, cast about for her 1939-40 successor. His best bet: tall, blonde, nightclubbing, 17-year-old Mary A. Steele, a product of Miss Chapin's finishing school and the daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele. Mused Publicist Farmer: "She has beautiful teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Central City | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Mediterranean. This oldtimer persisted for a long but chronologically vague period, perhaps 150,000, perhaps 40,000 years ago. With his low-vaulted skull, huge eye-sockets and a short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain and far better teeth than men of today. He made good tools, ceremoniously buried his dead, found shelter by intrepidly evicting bears from their caves. Near the close of the Glacial Age he was replaced by more modern types of men, who apparently feasted on Neanderthal carcasses. But while he lasted, as the Asiatic find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked his teeth with ostentation. Once he scuttled quickly across the floor, bit his hostess' pretty daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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