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Have just read with great interest your article in TIME, Aug. 16, entitled Thumb's House. We have just been entertaining here at our home the gentleman who has put the house up for sale. Also we have just returned from the wedding of our daughter at Exeter when she wore the same wedding veil of real Brussels lace that was worn by Lavinia Warren when she married the General Tom Thumb 60 years ago. Lavinia was first cousin to the present bride's grandmother...
...lies at the basis of the science of dentistry (Dr. Augustus S. Downing of Albany, N. Y.); that universities are now recognizing orthodontia as a dignified science and that the average dentist earns more than the average doctor (Dr. Leuman M. Waugh of Manhattan); that adenoids, mouth breathing and thumb-sucking mess up the arrangement of teeth (Dr. Percy R. Howe of Boston); that an underslung jaw and prominent chin does not of necessity indicate strength of character but simply that the individual's mother kept his thumb out of his mouth when he was a baby...
...What publisher "may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...
...Gannett was up to, by heading a syndicate to buy the Twin City Sentinel, biggest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. But those who did realize, said: "Well, that just shows you Frank Gannett's vision. He may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...
...everyone knows, Miss Lavinia Warren repulsed the attentions of Commodore Nutt because of his dissolute reputation, when he begged her hand in rivalry with General Thumb. The General's virtue was deemed above suspicion, though on Sept. 20, 1854, the Illustrated London News reported that "a lady, from excess of fantasy, eloped with him to the neighborhood of Guilligomach...