Word: larynxes
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...apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them...
Hrach. In Hollywood, Violinist Hrach Yacoubian filed a $20,250 suit against a restaurant, charged that one of its steaks was so tough that it lacerated his larynx...
...appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing in nightclubs like Manhattan's Glass Hat, Famous Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend had not said to him : "Sonny, I can't understand why you're not in pictures." Neither could Sonny, so he went to Hollywood. For his screen test he chose a solemn chunk of Liebestod which had originally been strained through velvet by Charles Boyer...
...believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with the others as inadequate. His own explanation is "a humdrum affair": man discovered words by sheer accident...
...British earl, dislikes his title, his wife called herself Lady Russell when telephoning the Foundation. This infuriated Barnes, who carries anti-snobbery to a point of fanatic snobbism. Snorted he: "She seems to have difficulty swallowing the impressive title of Lady Russell. It evidently gets stuck just below her larynx for she regurgitates it automatically...