Because late in life Soane decided to fill this and other containers with personal effects – spectacles, false teeth, documents – with the stipulation that they were not to be opened until the 50th anniversary of his wife's death.
The efficiency of bureaucracy has one of its finest moments in the neat and sorted piles of false teeth, hair and spectacles at the gas chamber doors.
Hugh Gaitskell's chancellorship (1950-51) was brief, but he certainly made his mark by providing the pretext for the resignation of Nye Bevan (and others) over higher defence spending and the introduction of charges for spectacles and false teeth.
They were in good clothes and disguised with thick spectacles and false mustaches (Meraj wore dark glasses, for contrast).
His most enduring, endearing films are about life's more quotidian dramas, and his pronouncements were rather like his taste for spectacle -- forced, false, ultimately self-destructive.
Wigs and false teeth, arms, and legs create a howling spectacle whose grotesqueness succeeds in freaking out her would-be inamorata.
The low point of the day was the spectacle of former President Clinton mouthing false platitudes designed to gut everything his party once represented.
Last week, for instance, as the budget spectacle approached the first of (inevitably) many false climaxes, the Republicans went beyond fiery soliloquies and carefully scripted choruses and began brandishing bits of scenery to dramatize their arguments.
A false impression that he failed to mention was the one created by the spectacle at hand — the flags, the suit, the stately delivery matched with the folksy message.
Instead the spectacles visible at a number of waterfalls around the world are referred to as spray moonbows or false moonbows.
