Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...
...shown in intimate discourse, but Mrs. Whale lends a feminine and domestic touch to the scene with a little marital argument in which the unfortunate Jonah is discussed as a Jonah to the cetaccan digestion, much like Mr. Kipling's mariner who made it uncomfortable for the whale's throat...
...great Hollywood sweepstakes, Harvard has made a belated effort to hide her shame by completing a moving picture enterprise of her own. There may not be a single one of the ten thousand men of Harvard who knows how to use mascara or wear polo shirts open at the throat but, impossible as it may seem, there are demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure immediate showing in the Harvard Clubs of the country, may serve in a measure...
...terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...
...usually open, because the adenoids hinder nose breathing, his facial expression is vacant, his breathing noisy, his hearing more or less impaired. He usually has a hacking cough, a peculiar muffling of the voice, and enlarged tonsils. Because inhaled air is not filtered through the nose, germs enter the throat, the lungs. Tuberculosis is a frequent result...