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...word for the support which the Mellons gave Gifford Pinchot, though it accurately described the non-support he got from Philadelphia's Boss Vare and Railroader William Wallace Atterbury. For weeks it had seemed that John M. Hemphill, a Democrat-"Liberal" with Beer, Business and a little black toothbrush on his lips, would be the anointed one and make Pennsylvania history. Yet when Allegheny County's (the Mellons') votes were counted, there were 70,000 extra for Pinchot?the backlog of his 50,000 statewide majority?and Theodore Roosevelt's forester was returned to governorship...
Rising and lighting a lamp, the Saint took up his toothbrush, covered the bristles with coarse grey granules, began to scrub. "I am brushing my teeth with contraband salt. I presume I am being arrested for breaking the salt laws...
Dentist into Dictator. There was a time when Signor Benito Mussolini looked like a dentist or a dental student. That was before he shaved off his black, toothbrush mustache. Similarly King Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache...
...guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults. . . . An orchestra ought to be as sacred as a toothbrush...
Scrub-a-Dub.. "Lay on cream!" "Scrub lowers!," "Scrub uppers!," and "ALL rinse!" were envisioned, last week, as commands soon to be uttered by drill masters of the Red Army. The public was informed that "toothbrush drills" would be inaugurated throughout the Army as soon as the Commissariat receives $200,000 worth of toothbrushes and toothpaste which have been ordered abroad...