Word: toothbrushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...papers," said Alice trying to make conversation, "that the American Chemical Society now meeting in New York is talking of trips to Mars, indefinitely long human life, toothbrush-less days, and pills which give nourishment equal to a seven course dinner. Dear me, I wonder what the world is coming...
...Soviet commune every grain of wheat, every horse or chicken, indeed every toothbrush and handkerchief is jointly owned by all members of the commune who own individually nothing outside their skins...
...want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between a pair of Saar refugees he fell downstairs, dislocated...
...facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...
...missionary to Moslems who started life as the son of a British pickle manufacturer. Last winter several tribal chiefs from Chinese Turkistan, where every tribe hates and fears every other tribe, called on Dr. Sheldrake in his Peiping hotel and invited him to be their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Persian. Sweeping clean, he announced that the name of his new kingdom was "Islamistan...