Word: toothpick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...Research on hands is not so pressing. The Miracle Hand, for instance, is excellent if properly attached to a good, lightweight arm: the fingers move separately and can pick up any thing from a toothpick to a chair...
Stem to Stern. In Portland, Ore., Jitterbug Ray Harrigan started cutting a rug with a toothpick in his mouth, ended up in a hospital with an intestinal perforation...
...Parsons an "old blabbermouth," while confiding in an aside that "everything will be all over town tomorrow." He referred to Emily Post as "a vulture for culture" and dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick on you?" He asked rippling Paulette Goddard with elaborate sweetness: "Take away your face and your figure and what have you got?" Of Beatrice ("Advice to the Lovelorn") Fairfax he naughtily inquired: "Where do you learn all the things you tell the young folks...
...hundred and eighty members of the Supply Corps School will be put into active service today on graduating from the training center at the Business School. The class will go directly into action, supplying the sailors with everything from "food to toothpick...