Word: larynxed
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...chest heaving as his lungs kept time with his runaway larynx...
...whole world was at war, but there in the headlines was The Voice, The Verce, The Larynx, The Tonsil, The Bony Baritone, The Sultan of Swoon-"none other" (as Jimmy Durante expressed it) "than Moonlight Sinatra." Radio comics gnawed ecstatically on the famous skinnybones. "The pipestem Caruso." "He has to pass a place twice before he casts a shadow." "I know the food here is lousy," cracked Phil Silvers as Frank walked onstage in their Army show, "but this is ridiculous...
...brother. But, he insisted, he had killed only in self-defense. His buddy, he claimed, had threatened him with a gun, and to protect his life, Dunne had used a judo trick learned in the commandos: a slashing blow with the edge of his hand against Watters' larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne. "I was only going to stun him." For nine days, while banner headlines in the London press blared forth the details of the latest crime of passion...
Ruth Etting (Columbia LP). One of the alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown...
...smoker who drinks more than six ounces of hard liquor daily is seven times as likely to get larynx cancer as a teetotaler who smokes the same amount. Below six ounces, the liquor does not seem to affect the cancer risk. Liquor does not influence the development of lung cancer...