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...Barker's specifications: "absolutely free from dental caries [decay] ... sized, shaped and set true and properly in the dental arch . . . proper shade, colorings and translucence to blend perfectly with the surrounding gum tissue, the eyes, hair and complexion . . . perfect cusps, grooves, pits, fissures and marginal ridges...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...
...essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially...
...Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
...lost interest in the problems of more-or-less-normal living. In the center, "General" Jacob S. Coxey, leader of the famed Coxey's Army of 1894, addresses the national convention of Hoboes of America, Inc. Meeting over a Washington saloon, the hoboes solemnly discussed the decay of youthful morals, wanderlust, the curse of the Machine Age, non-interest-bearing bonds...