Word: larynxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than with her eyes and hands, which, in Broadway musical shows, is a virtuous ability. Treasure Girl is not fair...
...particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...
...Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest...
...simple satisfactory cure for cancer of the larynx was reported by Sir St. Clair Thomson of London, president of the Royal Society of Medicine. The one essential is an early diagnosis; the operation is a laryngo-fissure, free from danger to voice or patient. Twenty five years' experience; 70 laryngo-fissures, resulted in 34 patients still alive, 32 who lived from 3 to 19 years after the operation without recurrence of the disease...
...their desks they all came ? all but New Mexico's Jones, Delaware's duPont, Montana's stormy Walsh. Senator duPont had only lately had his larynx removed. Senator Walsh's eyes were bothering him and, hearing he was to have teeth extracted, some people wished the teeth could be removed from his methods at the same time. Having conducted the Oil Inquiry, he now plans a Power Probe...