Word: toothlessness
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...bankrupt a monarchy as Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy, a half-educated, country-born...
Losing home-grown teeth and getting store ones is distressing to sensitive people. They chiefly dread 1 ) encountering friends and business associates while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself...
...only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many a "yea" and "nay," makes and sells braided rugs. She is one of the orphans who stuck with the Shakers. When a visitor last week remarked on the variety of Shaker work, Elderess Sarah explained: "Yea, we made everything except...
...given Germany back to Germans. At any unveiling or launching before Naziism, "there was nothing but high hats and no people. Today there is nothing but people and no high hats." He had tried to give Germans peace, but his enemies-"a lot of zeros . . . these old, toothless men''-had desired...
...photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find him on the warpath than to find toothless Walter Brennan or Isabel Jewell, who is dragged from the burning Indian village, cussing and clawing with her usual high spirits. The shocking thing is to see debonair, man-of-the-world Robert Young, smiling perkily in his best bedside manner in the middle of the howling wilderness. He stops...