Word: toothlessly
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...Dame Lucy into withdrawing the two most offensive paragraphs of her article from copies of the Saturday Review intended for the wholesale news dealers. "But I shall keep on in some other way!" she declared, repeating her determination not to let the British lion remain what she calls "a toothless old lap dog!" Next day itinerant vendors hawked furtively on the streets of London a special, unexpurgated issue of the Saturday Review...
...from the State dining-room to the Blue Room where 250 other guests had gathered for the first big formal function of the new Administration (see p. 7). All official Washington was there, shaking hands, expanding under Mrs. Roosevelt's informal hospitality. Fat little Maxim Litvinoff grinned his toothless grin oftener than usual. He was going upstairs with the President afterward to receive the papers which would formally seal the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...stooped and toothless crone of 71 shuffled along a country road near Kingston, Md. one morning last week. Mrs. Mary Denston was on her way to see her daughter. Suddenly, from behind, black hands were laid upon her. Cackling and kicking feebly she was dragged by a young Negro buck to a clump of bushes. There, amid a flurry of leaves dancing rustily in the autumn sunshine, she was raped...
...unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without may stay Sir Charles' hand, but in this event something quite as important would have happened; Labour would be shown up for a toothless dog, fit not for Passfields and Trevelyans, but for the Hon. MacDonald, and for him alone...
...midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle. Mickey pursuing, champs the teeth ferociously, suddenly gives out a lion-like roar. Mickey is a mouse but he acts like a man. He has a sack-like hound and a cat. They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with...