Word: gullet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson...
Chosen during the cruise to serve as president of the Association through next year's congress in Rio de Janeiro was shy, modest Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, famed for removing growths and foreign bodies from throat, windpipe, gullet, lung. At 68 he is still active in the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic with which Temple University lured him away from University of Pennsylvania...
...infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable of digesting such a large bite and was forced to disgorge. Inflamed by a frenzied economic nationalism, Japan apparently now considers herself able to swallow the morsel that stuck in her gullet fifteen years...
...pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string along with the corrupt kosher poultry "trust"' (two who did not were shot down...
...torrent of red hair appears even more charming than she was in Sons o' Guns. But black-banged Eleanor Powell, possibly the best lady tap-dancer in the business, gives her a race for being the most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs"); an imitator of mammy-singers and Clifton Webb; a manufacturer of bath-tub gin; the victim of a barber...