Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...likeness as to be wasted away by the passion; but we all find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair and the dentist's, and the truth of this fact is stamped upon nine out of ten photographs, the sitters for which were all horribly conscious that they were "being taken." The expression varies. Some have evidently tried to follow the artist's advice to "look pleasant," and they inevitably do themselves...
...have not forgotten the proverb, "Let well enough alone," and detest that cavilling spirit that like a dishonest dentist always finds one more defect to be remedied. But, on the other hand, suggestions of improvement are proverbially a paper's vantage-ground, and it seems but fair we should here express in concert what finds daily expression in the jokes or grumblings of individuals. Why, then, does the anachronism still-exist of a rule in the Schedule of the Memorial Hall Association forbidding the use of alcoholic drinks among the diners at the Hall? In the old days, when...
...find upon the official bulletin-board the following important notice: "Students are reminded that an engagement with a dentist is not accepted by the Faculty as a sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...