Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving the convention, Mr. Davis stopped at Pittsburgh to visit his parents, to tell them how he almost became a candidate for Vice President. With a lump in her throat, Mother Davis said to Father Davis: "David, if you had only been willing to come to America when I wanted you to, we would have had a Vice President in the family...
February 27--"How the Nerves, Eyes, Nose and Throat may be Affected by the Teeth." Dr. George H. Wright '03, Assistant Professor of Dentistry, Harvard University...
...sketched through hastily till I came to Gentle Grafters when I must say I was horrified with these lines: "The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe?it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat...
...little moth, a little singe" and it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat when a young girl surrenders her virtue? To be sure it is only a picture, but is it teaching the young and innocent girl, even though she may be called a "flapper" that it is "only a little singe" to do this? Is your reporter lending himself to the support of such a false theory? Is is possible that it is not known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens...
...suspected it was a cross between a lynx and a house cat. Nature lovers recalled that Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, in his book Walden mentioned a "winged cat." It was the pet of a farmer-neighbor, d scribed as "dark brownish grey color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose...