Word: toothlessness
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...Nights in a Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have...
...local joint committees in 64 key industrial centers to harmonize the conflicting demands of local industry and the draft boards; and to get labor, management and the Government to work out a local manpower program on a less platitudinous basis than the Commission's eight hopeful but toothless "directives" have yet achieved...
...best troops and equipment were probably earmarked for the defense of the Burma Road, which is far more important than Hong Kong in Allied grand strategy. General Tsai's forces, which probably lacked artillery, were like men trying to chew their way through a tough steak with toothless gums. If Hong Kong's defenses held long enough, China might mass enough infantrymen to besiege the Japanese from the rear. But that depended partly on how many days Hong Kong could live and feed itself...
White-haired, toothless Sage Carver still sticks to his philosophy: "Save everything. From what you have make what you want." His gnarled hands are always busy with bits of string, tinfoil, clay, which he fashions, as he talks, into decorative objects. He is proudest of his picture of four peaches, painted with pigment made of native clay, not as a work of art but because any child, as a result of his researches, should be able to use similar material. "That's just the clay we walk on every day." says he. " Our clays are just as brilliant...
...Pediatricians used to vie with each other to see who could find the earliest age to give infants solid foods. One even fed meat to toothless three-month-olds. But now doctors generally stick to milk, wait for a few teeth before feeding babies solids. As for the transition from bottle to cup, Dr. Aldrich suggests placing a cup on baby's feeding tray, waiting till he starts to play with it and tries to drink...