Word: larynx
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...iron larynx spoke to the multitudes of his people assembled on a hill outside their city in darkness and rain...
Birdman Kellogg's larynx has long been a source of entertainment to the public and of revenue to him. He has been on and off the vaudeville stage for 15 years. His flame experiment was the result of thousands of "fan" letters he received after a radio lecture last month. He can "sing" a note so high that it is inaudible to the human ear. Such a sound can be made with a violin but no Tetrazzini, no Galli-Curci, could make it. With these notes topping his vocal scale Mr. Kellogg has learned to imitate and even improve...
...engaged a room at once, rushed his wife into bed, sped away for assistance. Upon his return with a doctor, he found his wife dead, her face mottled, eyes bulging. Examination revealed that Mme. de Landsheer's tongue had somehow completely reversed itself and been drawn into her larynx, strangling...
...eyes for a last 20 winks before his mid-afternoon train pulled into Atlanta, sat up with a start. A great shout had awakened him?a shout billowing from thousands of male throats like a sultry banner, striped with the thinner, brighter cries that issue from the female larynx; a shout that had cast, as it unfurled, its majestic shadow upon the smoking-room. The traveling man stepped to the basin and began furiously to wash his face...
...American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders and shuffle their feet, went off to their homes or their cabarets feeling- some of them-that they had been cheated...