dental plate

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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.

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For the rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-m�ch� wonders as a huge walking dental plate.

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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.

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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."

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“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