Word: throat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to go to the entrance your ticket calls for. What's that? Double M. Q coming. Z coming. Up to your left, please. Don't block the aisle. Keep moving, please. Fourth and fifth seats in. Up in the colonnade, please. . . . The afternoon had scarcely begun, but his throat was raw and dry already. Too many cigarettes and those sawdust sandwiches were responsible for that. Hell of a thing anyhow--having to usher on the Dartmouth side. Showing those belligerent guys to their seats. Almost afraid to yell for Harvard. Having to listen to them cheer when any decent...
...pickled his adventures in some of the most beautiful landscape photography ever recorded on film, used native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull but makes many Holly-wood A pictures soporific by comparison. Best bit part: Pygmy kibitzer sneering at the bridge building...
...with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some in from our stock." Huffed, Capra buttoned the collar of his shirt around his neck...
...reporters from Baltimore, Washington and New York soon discovered that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
...walk around the deck the first day out with a copy of TIME conspicuously displayed about one's person. Before nightfall the above-mentioned B. P. will either be at one's feet in an effort to borrow that copy, or will be at one's throat in an effort to settle an argument born of some article in TIME...