Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...
...Berlin, Dr. W. Christ, experimenter, stained a quart of water with a harmless blue dye; made a neighbor swallow the full quart. The doctor wanted to know how fast the stomach got rid of the water. So at intervals, he ran a rubber tube down the neighbor's throat to his stomach and drained off a little water. He learned: in 15 minutes half the water was gone, in 30 minutes four-fifths...
...Rolfé, Ernie Golden, assembled in Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy we are following the example of baseball and the motion pictures...
...Manhattan, one Saul Fernandez was entertaining some ladies and gentlemen in his home at No. 121 W. 79 St. When Guest Juan Jacuevas uttered an improper remark to a young lady, Host Fernandez leaped at him, seized him by the throat, grasped his nose in his strong white teeth, bit off that nose. Mr. Jacuevas called a policeman. Mr. Fernandez was arrested...
...seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy where Mr. Havemeyer dived, "shark hunts" are sometimes held. When the tide is ebbing, a goat's throat is cut and the body tied to the buoy. Or a bloated horse is tied there and bloody scraps are sent floating out to sea. Usually it is hours before a long shape, bronze in the bright blue water, moves slowly in over the bar. Other slow shapes follow, circling...