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Word: teething (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First President, matured with the cares of Government, his military dash gone with his teeth. To William Williams, who painted him in full Masonic regalia for the Alexandria, Va. lodge, he was a ruddy-nosed old aristocrat full of honors and years, the owner of property worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Washington, by Anderson | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Meantime Baiata was having trouble with the second $25,000 instalment. A onetime broker's clerk who was in desperate need of a new set of lower false teeth was outfitted from Boston Dentists and set up as W. W. Ehlers & Co., Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ledger B | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Their teeth are white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MICE ARE NICE" ACCORDING TO A BIOLOGICAL LYRICIST | 12/4/1934 | See Source »

...live in his Long Island home. As playmate to the young Ravens, Meshie soon learned the routine of civilization. Today she weighs 70 lb., is 3 ft. high, has the mind of a 12-year-old, will never be much wiser. Like any well-reared girl Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets up. Then she eats a morning breakfast of bananas & cream, using a spoon and holding the tin dish between her leg-paws. For luncheon and dinner she prefers veal, chicken, steak, refuses lamb, pork or fish. Affectionate, she likes to pick choice bits from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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