Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
...teeth, but most of them do it wrong. So says the American Dental Association, which should know. Toothbrushing, announced the Association's Journal last week, should begin as follows: "Keeping the handle firmly grasped in front of the nose, place the brushhead on the chewing surfaces of the upper or lower back teeth. . . . Then, lifting the brush, hit down on the teeth six or seven times, with a punching action...
Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
...also war in the Pacific. It was a year of great achievement for Admiral Chester William Nimitz, top U.S. commander in that theater of tiny land patches in vast reaches of water. For the first time, in 1944, Nimitz took the offensive, as distinguished from the counteroffensive (Guadalcanal, the upper Solomons, the Gilberts). In the Marshalls, the Marianas and the Carolines, Nimitz put his amphibious forces on the fringe of the Japanese inner empire. For the first time the main strength of the Jap fleet was lured to battle, and it was badly beaten, leaving the U.S. with at least...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...