Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest in this connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN...
Architect Edouard Moravicz stood nearby admiring his building, last week, when it began to sway ever so little. Horror gripped his throat, his eyes bulged, and then he screamed?well knowing that 120 laborers were at work within the toppling structure...
...other customs are revived. The plebe sounds off the days to the next game as well as those to June and Graduation. The Corps listens to doleful forecasts from officers and is told that it must back up the team. Then it goes to the game and cheers its throat into paralysis, just as it would have done without the patriotic speeches, and "Yuh-gotta-do its" of the cheer-leaders...
...Curtis arrived in Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...