Word: chokes
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...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...
...written. The story itself moves at about the speed of Fate with a hotfoot. The speed, along with some lively shifts of camera angle, almost prevents a moviegoer from realizing that the camera, poor dog, is not really bounding free through the narrative growth, but poodling along on a choke leash of stagy words...
Having just completed a trying reading of the commentary accompanying the pictures in this year's Radcliffe Freshman Register we cannot help but choke back a feeling of disgust. Undoubtedly sundry Square merchants are deeply indebted, in view of the subtle plugs for their respective products. We will even venture a prediction that the bewildered freshmen will sleep more soundly this year, secure in the knowledge that, "the Harvard Typewriter Exchange is prepared to meet emergencies," all her Christmas shopping "is easily accomplished at the Upper Story on Church street," and that the Ambassador Taxi Company is waiting to relieve...
...even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick...
...several hours on sharp pebbles, supporting a 200-lb. stone on their shoulders. Angry guards bayoneted one P.W. when he walked out on a Russian movie. A Texas corporal was forced to stand on tiptoe, his hands tied behind his back, his neck in a noose that would choke him if he sagged. Some were beaten. Said Sergeant Fisher Watkins: "They pistol-whipped me, but they didn't knock me down." He added confidently: "They couldn't hit you that hard...