Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originator of wrestling with cattle, whose disgusting act was holding the poor beast by the nose with his teeth, was on his death eulogized by a gaseous columnist, saying his like would not be seen again. A humane animal lover retorted: "It is sincerely hoped there never would...
...discovered the more compelling joys of the burlesque theatre. He had other eccentricities: he always ar ranged his knife and fork on his plate so that they should not point at his breast, was forever washing his hands, could not bear anything made of cotton. It still sets his teeth on edge to think of wiping his mouth with a napkin; he does it with the back of his hand...
Since then it has been found singly from India to Norway, but in 1927 a group of over one hundred turned up on the northeast coast of Scotland, where the Harvard specimen was recovered. False Killers have the great teeth of the real Killer and live on cuttle fish, but their dorsal fins are much smaller...
Everything from false teeth to stray bulldogs is handled by the lost-and-found departments of the University, located in the Harvard Union, the offices of the H.A.A., and the headquarters of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06. Day by day a flood of articles is turned in to Colonel Apted, and working with incredible rapidity he manages to return a small proportion of these articles to their rightful owners. All things found in the Yard, even tortoises strayed from the Biology Department, eventually are turned in to the Colonel, who throws them into a closet and waits for the owner...
Widowed Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was painfully ill of shock, gallstones, and infected teeth. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her mother to whom she is "Mignon," was recuperating from an attack of influenza brought on by the bitter weather during King Alexander's funeral. Both sick women worried mightily about Dowager Queen Marie's youngest daughter, the Archduchess Ileana, expecting another baby and running a dangerous fever in Vienna...