Word: throat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, last week gave good cheer. In the American Journal of Surgery he pointed out that their defective speech is primarily due to the failure of the soft palate to close off and separate the nasopharynx (space back of the nose) from the oropharynx (mouth part of the throat). Consequence of such failure is that air which should escape from the mouth, during the enunciation of consonants, vibrates through the nasal cavity and escapes through the nostrils...
...harelip (best done when a child is two to six weeks of age), and wiring a cleft palate (best done between the second and third year), Dr. Vaughan has devised a method of lengthening the soft palate so that it can effectively close the upper part of the throat, resulting in clear speech...
...between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft palate has learned to prevent consonantal sounds from rumbling into the nose. Then speech...
...that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will not be out distanced by the Hollywood field. She is less buoyant than Columbia's blonde Grace Moore, but she has more chic. MGM's svelte Jeanette MacDonald may do better in her underwear, but Contralto Swarthout's throat muscles do not wiggle. Over RKO's little Lily Pons, she has the definite advantage of being able to talk English...
...second line will find George Ford at center, Louis Carr at left wing, and the recovered Ben Hallowell at right. John Callaway might see action at Hallowell's position if the latter's throat injury persists. It is likely, however, that Callaway will john Mechem in flanking George Roberts on the third line...