Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Giacomo Puccini, famed composer, at Brussels, Belgium, where he had gone for radium treatment for tumor of the throat. Weakened by the treatment, he died of a heart attack. While he lay dying, his opera Madame Butterfly was being presented at the Costanza Theatre, Rome. On the day of his death, his opera La Boheme was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, where, after the third act, Chopin's Funeral March was played by the orchestra. In Italy, Premier Mussolini announced that Puccini's funeral would be paid...
When the high priests of Israel made sacrifices to the God of Abraham, they followed a ritual in their slaughter of the beast which was both humane and sanitary. Using a long, smooth blade, twice the width of the animal's throat, they severed with a delicate stroke, scrupulously exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish...
...awful bore to the spectators, whether they be winners or losers. More than that, it rubs in the victory just that much harder, and emphasizes the question of differing nationality just that much more. So long, as there is a mob psychology to bring a catch to the throat as the national emblem is raised on its staff and the national anthem played in honor of an American victory, so long as there is the feeling that possessed one member of the team when he rushed up to me in a frenzy of delight at having snapped a photo...
...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
...Every time one of the serried array of learned counsel . . . clears his throat or blows a bugle call on his proboscis, a cost of 69.4 cents is imposed on the estate, assuming that indulgence in either of these forensic flourishes consumes a single second of time...