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...last week in their yard in Los Angeles, John Henderson, 11, and his brother Leo, 9, were playing with their shepherd dog Bing. They noticed that he was foaming and frothing at the mouth, just as they did when they brushed their teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...
...rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June...
This bludgeon-blow so distressed well-meaning Stanley Baldwin that he went to the expense of having editorials in British papers which remained favorable to him self cabled to Ottawa and there released by his delegation's press contact man, Malcolm MacDonald, toothbrush-mustached son of Prime Minister MacDonald...
When the next train came in Premier Bennett again had to hasten down to the last car where he said, "How's your father?" to toothbrush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald...