Word: toothless
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...also of sturgeon?Mr. Hoover will report that, in 30 years, the annual catch of sturgeon has decreased by 2,890,000 lb., or 88%. Toothless, long-snouted, mail-headed, he was once the monopoly of England's King. From his female's roe comes caviar. And his flesh bakes pleasantly...
...Freetown, Sierra Leone, a dense crowd of Negroes, whose blackness was illuminated by a riot of colored dress, greeted the Prince. Many came arrayed in top hats and wedding clothes and were transported in Ford cars; big black mammies carried their toothless babes on their backs. Cries of "King Pikkin" (the King's Baby Son) welcomed the Prince as he read an address and distributed the King's medal...
...figures by Business School methods of analysis, it is plain that in this degenerate age there is only one tooth brush for every 2.7 persons or, to put it more clearly, one person to .37 of a tooth brush. Now supposing that there are 10,000,000 people totally toothless out of a population of 110,000,000, including babies to four months, prize fighters, victims of lock jaw, and octogenarians; and further supposing 10,000,000 souls who, for one reason or other, do not believe in this modern luxury such as Holy Rollers and vegetarians, there are left...