Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that its eyeballs popped out. Finally he left, taking Ruth Duvall with him. Some 30 hours later the girl was found, naked, outside...
...entirely dependent on the care exercised by those who are taken ill with Influenza. Trued Influenza is characterized by a sudden onset of illness with fever and general body aches and pains, particularly backache and aching behind the eyes. This may be associated with nose and throat symptoms...
Even the Czechoslovak judge seemed uneasy in the presence of a prisoner who looked as if he might spring at any convenient throat. When cross examination began all eyes were fixed upon Bebe, ears strove to catch the answers which he made in thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
...wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...
Clearing his throat, taking a sip of water, and folding up his prepared speech, Alanson Bigelow Houghton sat down without mentioning the issue raised by Lord Lee of Fareham. But Manhattan dailies, and many another throughout the U. S., carried editorials approving Lord Lee's suggestion for a two-Power two-man conference...