Word: larynxes
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Lying now in the darkness, alone with his frozen body, Bellower Humphries thought of crying out for help, discovered that his famed lungs and larynx still functioned. He bellowed. No one came. He kept on bellowing at intervals as grey light came to dispel the suffocating darkness, as the sun climbed & climbed into the sky. It was not until 10 a. m. that a neighbor who lived across the street finally heard the bellows, rushed over to find Joe Humphries sweating and shivering...
...most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam's apple...
...Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary...
Professionally he is rated a speedy, crackerjack general surgeon operating on "anything below the throat." The cliche is misleading. He has done notable re search on the pituitary gland (in the skull) as well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...
Accent came with the next words. Try 'as he might Il Duce could not keep up the pace he had set with "ladies and gentlemen." His Italian larynx clipped "people" first to "peepl" and finally to "peep." His "the" gradually became...