Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
Senator Henrik Shipstead, 20th Century Minnesota dentist, in a Senate bill to amend the judiciary law, has translated the "external things of the world" into things "tangible and transferable...
...schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able dentist, is comparable to that of a high-grade mechanic...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
Many an employe, going about his tasks in a manufactory where mercury heating is in process, has found himself suffering unaccustomed ailments. His eyes glaze with fever. Dysentery sets in. The dentist cautions him against pyorrhea, for his teeth are loosening. Finally the doctor orders him to give up work for a long vacation in the country and he recovers. What has occurred in such cases is an insidious mercurial poisoning, the result of inhaling mercury vapors escaped from leaking seams in the apparatus. The illness may be a long time coming or a short time. Mercury is cumulative...