Word: toothbrushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dentist into Dictator. There was a time when Signor Benito Mussolini looked like a dentist or a dental student. That was before he shaved off his black, toothbrush mustache. Similarly King Alexander used to be of an insignificant appearance. Though his mind and features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache...
...guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults. . . . An orchestra ought to be as sacred as a toothbrush...
Scrub-a-Dub.. "Lay on cream!" "Scrub lowers!," "Scrub uppers!," and "ALL rinse!" were envisioned, last week, as commands soon to be uttered by drill masters of the Red Army. The public was informed that "toothbrush drills" would be inaugurated throughout the Army as soon as the Commissariat receives $200,000 worth of toothbrushes and toothpaste which have been ordered abroad...
Brushing. "Don't drag the toothbrush from one area to another. The bristles bend and sag and don't do their work."-Dr. H. H. White, Chicago...
...Constance's solvent enterprise in the interior decorating business. As for the second, it is simply an argument advanced by a Victorian mother-in-law with urbane cynicism, who declares that the only test of true love is whether you can use your husband's toothbrush. The dialogue is conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage Ethel of recent years, to which an Ethel-drawn audience responds with laughter...