Word: toothlessly
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...diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal-rimmed spectacles, a big, near-toothless grin, the dollar watch dangling from the dhoti-who tenderly encircled a little girl with a garland of flowers that she had brought...
...alkaline water, reach the hideous end of their journey, Novelist Swarthout has sketched a powerful case against the military. Some of the characters, including the woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers of the men's magazines. He explores a dark quadrant of the mind, and if he has not solved its paradoxes-coward's courage and hero's cowardice-it may be because, as he says of Chihuahua, it is a country of no answers...
...visitors), came out at night for dinner (25 to 35 live crayfish, 200 to 300 worms, one frog, several scrambled eggs, add mud and stir). But beyond that, instead of just waddling about his own business, Cecil began to court Penelope. He grabbed her flat tail in his duckbilled, toothless mouth, and held on for dear life while Penelope dragged him around the pool in slow circles. At times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what there...
...will bear the inscription, 'Here lies the body of the Father of Halitosis.' " Today, thanks to impish Gerard Barnes Lambert, the world is full of youngsters to whom the pre-halitosis world must seem as remote as that of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Soon, only toothless oldsters will remain to tell of a time when every bridesmaid took her breath in her stride and no man, wanting the truth, went to a child...
...longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into an organization empowered to coordinate the foreign and military policies of member nations...