Word: gullet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews are like maggots in a decaying body. The black-haired Jew with satanic joy in his face is ever lying in wait for some innocent Aryan girl. . . . No folk can remove this [Jewish] fist from its gullet except by the sword. Only the gathered, concentrated strength of a powerfully rising national passion is able to oppose the international enslavement of peoples. Such a procedure is, however, and remains, a bloody...
...result of cancer or accident. Dr. William Wallace Morrison of Manhattan, who has taught many to talk, presented some prize scholars who belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates in the stomach, which the patient soon learns to treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like...
...Jackson, while not the first man to peer down the trachea and esophagus, perfected the circus sword-swallower's technique of throwing back the head so far that mouth, throat and windpipe or gullet form a straight channel through which a straight metal tube can be slipped. The tube which penetrates the windpipe to the lungs is called a bronchoscope. A slightly larger metal tube which goes into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body...
...surgery to form the American Bronchoscopic Society. This week that society, augmented to a membership of about 75 by graduates of Philadelphia's Temple University where Dr. Jackson now teaches, meets in Detroit for exchange of experiences of extracting tacks, pins, false teeth, bones, knickknacks from lung and gullet...
...when I suggest that they remove their dentures before retiring. . . . The chances of suffocation are not great. Occasionally a man has been asphyxiated by a denture or a tooth. But not nearly so often as by an oyster." The obstruction which Dr. Jackson has found most often in the gullet "is a certain part of the breastbone of chicken. Why, we don't know. But there's something about that bone which seems to make it lodge in the esophagus. It is a curious thing...