Word: gullet
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...turbulent peoples spread over the world, Great Britain uses such a navy for shepherding its Hocks; its twin in the United States is an expensive and nearly useless watch-dog. Because of the failure of pacifistic statesmanship, nearly nine-tenths of the country's revenue is poured down the gullet of Mars. But even this could be borne, as it has been borne, if it were not for the alarming trend that prophecy and propaganda are taking...
...Italy, one Giovanni Noverre made a wager. He then drank a glass of water, another five glasses,* another 14 glasses, another 23 glasses, then very slowly nine more, then seven more taken in gulps and sips; finally he raised the 60th glass poured it drop by drop down his gullet. After this glass, his wager won, Giovanni Noverre fell down and died...
...Collins, 307 pounds, waddled into a butcher shop. On the walls hung red, juicy, uncooked animals. Under the glass counter reposed cool, damp, bulging joints of beef. On the counter, in the icebox, lay bloody fowl; flaccid livers; grisly, delicious knuckles; dainty, pink and white lamb chops. The gullet of Mae C. Collins gaped a little. Her small, pleasant, piggy eyes, twinkling behind rolls of fat as round and red as hamburgers, finally fixed on a ponderous porterhouse steak. Seizing it, she waddled out of the butcher shop...
...London, a zoo keeper, though used to seeing the ostriches swallow indigestibles, shuddered as he saw an end of rope vanishing down one bird's gullet. He dashed, caught the end, tugged for 15 minutes, retrieved five yards of rope, much of it already subjected to attempted digestion. The ostrich went away and sat down...
...these crimes are not mere sporadic instances of barbarity, but that a single insidious motive underlies them both. Nor would it be far wrong to consider them a part of the propaganda being disseminated by the Cafeteria Trust, which is seeking, and alas acquiring, a strangle hold upon the gullet of the American people. Even those of us who submit most tamely to the ignominy of self-service feel vaguely alarmed at the increasingly rapid disappearance of the waiter from our modern times. Obviously something must be done about it; and as we slop coffee over an ill-balanced tray...