Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
...Three throat operations, the last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...
...game continued and came a dispute over yardage, necessitating a conclave of all officials. The little man reeking with Coloridgiana cleared his throat, "Well, gentlemen, we will hold this particular play in abeyance." During the interim a modest derbied spectator obliged with a few readings from the H.A.A. News, prefating his performance with a request that several of the northern portals be barricaded as there seemed to be a strong draught; that done, he pleaded for silence. The entertainment was never consummated, however, for the game resumed shortly. The Fine Arts enthusiast offered comments: "A delicate organization, that team, highly...
...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
...years ago a hotel employe in East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity...