Word: toothlessness
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...charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice...
...dwarfs, elephants and gorillas are better acquainted with their histrionic duties and can discharge them more effectively. Almost as effective as the animals is Tarzan Weissmuller. His ability as a swimmer has never led him into jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan...
...scientific mastication of his breakfast. If he were to retain them during the day he would look younger and better than he really does. ... So we notice that he left his artificial dentistry for its strictly scientific use at the next meal, and went on his way a smiling, toothless old man." Can TIME'S correspondent arrange to count St. Gandhi's teeth (or tooth) and settle this...
...poor as a church mouse," said he. flashing a toothless smile, "I have nothing for you. Beside I don't want to bribe you for performing a mere public duty...
...hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper. I preserved my equanimity.' 'Yes, but what did you say?' 'I called him,' replied Swinburne in his chanting voice, 'a wrinkled and toothless baboon who, first hoisted into notoriety on the shoulders of Carlyle, now spits and sputters on a filthier platform of his own finding and fouling...