Word: toothlessness
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...series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson's stern idealism, the Othello glare of youthful Tragedian Edwin Forrest (Orson Welles of his day), Dolly Madison's smile, the pinched, toothless jaws of 90-year-old John Adams, many another...
...razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick, in a $2-a-week furnished room. At week's end, near-toothless, gnarled Gee Jordan rose on his crutches, spruced up, eyed Florida as the place to end his days...
...signatures which the British Government was especially anxious to obtain for the "Stop Hitler" declaration were those of Poland, Russia and France. Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, soon told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that such a toothless declaration was meaningless, would only anger Herr Hitler. He suggested that Britain initiate conscription and sign a military alliance...
...Irish and the Merseysiders exulted, and they were right. The Paddy horse breezed in three lengths ahead of MacMoffat without the whip, with Kilstar a trailing third among the eleven finishers. It was the first all-Irish winner since Troytown's year, 1920. Tim Hyde grinned a wide, toothless grin. Said he to Workman: "Twas a marvelous race...
...voice is the voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith. Helhapoppin turns out to be toothless old vaudeville trying to act like a lusty, bellowing babe. From the time the curtain goes up on a cockeyed newsreel in which Hitler talks with a Yiddish accent and Mussolini with a Negro one, Helha-poppin-gagging, hamming, roughhousing all the way-does not miss a trick...