anesthetic
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At times, his dazzling piano playing calls Art Tatum to mind; elsewhere, singing lighthearted ditties like “There’s No Anesthetic for Love” in a repartee with his trio-mates, he sounds a lot like Louis Jordan.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2019
Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anesthetic gases might knock people out, but there was no guarantee that they would wake up, ever, especially the small children.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slow Anesthetic, Two Cincinnatians, Theodore Harold Rider and Eugene Wiley Scott, presented a new local anesthetic which they claim is stronger than novocaine or cocaine and can replace those drugs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bridegroom and The Best Man have just emerged from the Anesthetic Room and are standing before him.
From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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