Word: toothlessly
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...last week, stood matters for 22,000 Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...cruise of Velero III, a 195-foot, steel superyacht equipped with tanks, cages, diving helmets, dredging apparatus, Hancock found "Eden," the idyllic home on Galapagan Charles Island of toothless Escapist Dr. Frederick Ritter and his toothless common-law wife Frau Dore Koerwin. Three years later he discovered on Marchena the twisted, mummified body of Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, castoff tuberculous lover of a Galapagan lady, the Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol...
...first third of the book tells of Joseph's trip into Egypt, the slave of a prudent, toothless old merchant who recognized his talents, purchased him and planned to sell him to a household where his gifts might be valued. For the 17-year-old Joseph, intelligent, intuitive, and up held by a mysterious conviction of his destiny, the trip is a succession of marvels...
...Belbenoit. In 1927 he supplied Blair Niles with the background material for her best-selling romance, Condemned, to Devil's Island. On May 2, 1935, Rene Belbenoit made his fifth escape from Devil's Island. When he arrived in Los Angeles, two years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana's famed penal colony. With him he carried, wrapped in oil paper, 30 pounds of closely-written manuscript describing his 15-year imprisonment...