dental plate
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Rural, red-faced Stewart Andes Maples, a Rutherford Countian, let his dental plate fall twice as he inveighed against "infernal, shameful roadhouses," click-clacked his support of Roosevelt "as a good Samaritan."
From Time Magazine Archive
President Grover Cleveland had cancer of the mouth, caused probably by the irritation of an ill-fitting dental plate rather than by heavy smoking.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Nottingham, England, Scottish Flyweight Champion Vic Herman found himself an ounce too heavy before he defended his title, reduced immediately by taking out his dental plate and its single tooth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted out with a new dental plate, Hiss tentatively confirmed his earlier identification of him as Crosley.
From Time Magazine Archive
“To fold or hang up his clothes, sir. Put his dental plate in water and see that he had everything he wanted for the night.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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