Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what I have said you will find the answer to the question so often asked of our colonial aspirations and desires. One must not describe Italy as though she were lying in hiding behind a hedge, ready to jump at the throat of the first passing nation, to tear a colony from her hands...
...animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from its jaws, but does not always "froth...
...Cool slitted eyes. Calm-looking throat. Cold grey pallor...
What Price Glory (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio). Those who have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...
...parents took it to Atlantic City, and all the people on the boardwalk crowded around to pat it on the head. Its reception was only exceeded by that accorded George White's Scandals, which seems to prove that next to legs the American public likes lumps in its throat...