Word: larynx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficacy of early detection and prompt treatment. Other townspeople allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered from that thing, and I want to show others that they...
...title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music...
...After the ball, Elsa, though granting she panned Maria's use of her larynx at her Met opening, heartily rasped that the "feud" was all "a joke...
Five years after the cobalt-60 machine went into operation for cancer treatment at London, Ont., Dr. Ivan Smith evaluated its advantages: it is best in cancer of the larynx, least effective in lung cancer; it gives more relief in several other forms of cancer than ordinary X rays; though it "has not revolutionized the treatment of cancer," cobalt 60 is a boon because it does less damage to healthy skin and bone, is less likely to cause radiation sickness...
...such as "In America, the artist is ever an outcast, a pariah" do not read like something misprinted on a card given out in a gypsy tearoom. Indeed, there are those-and Alfred Perles. is determined not to be the least-to whom such words, from Miller's larynx, "make one think of cathedral bells...