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...Gandhi neither brushes his teeth with a toothbrush nor tickles his throat with his forefingers. Like most Hindus he keeps his teeth, gums and tongue clean by rubbing them with a dantan, a slender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Lean, highbrowed, toothbrush-mustached Dr. Uhler issued a detailed defense of Cane Juice, pointed out errors in Mgr. Gassier's charges. He said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cane Juice | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...pudgy gentleman with sparse unruly white hair and a toothbrush mustache stood patiently in line for nearly an hour under the dusty pepper trees by a Madrid polling place last week before he was recognized: Alcala Zamora, Provisional President of Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Election | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Hair-trigger nerves. A dark toothbrush mustache. Youth. The gift of gab. Ambition. A decent War record. IDEAS: how to shrug the burden of War debts off one's country's shoulder; how to recapture prosperity; how to become GREAT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Pierre Roy is fiftyish, stocky, wears pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over attained the nirvana of the French bourgeoisie, he is a rentier and need never paint a stroke, could live quite comfortably on his inherited income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Petit Maitre | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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