Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving force behind the eye bank is a smartly dressed, sixtyish woman named Aida de Acosta Breckinridge. One day last week the telephone rang in her small office on the first floor of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Mrs. Breckinridge answered briskly: "Oh, yes. A little baby's eyes are wonderful. We'll call for them tomorrow." Another Manhattan hospital had called to say that some parents had offered the corneas of their dead child so that another person might see. The Red Cross would handle the delivery to the eye bank. A telegram...
...suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked for a nail file. Then, sprinkling the powder on the file...
Some men are natural leaders, others shove it down your throat. Arthur L. Valpey, Jr. has never shoved anything down anyone's throat. He just explains in his relaxed, quiet way what he would like to see done, and they try to do it, and more--"they" meaning not only the 44 men on the Varsity football squad, but also the assistant coaches, team doctors, grounds keepers, sports writers, and, in fact, everyone who knows him and his job of football...
Last week* the Journal complained that advertising is leaning heavily on references to the medical profession, with more & more emphasis on throat irritation. Huffed the Journal: "It would be difficult indeed to differentiate between the irritation caused by the smoking of cigarettes and that caused by various bacteria, chemicals or heat." If the cigarette companies do not mend their talk, it hinted darkly, the Government might crack down...
...same issue contained a full-page ad for Camels ("See if your throat doesn't welcome Camel's cool, cool mildness") and one for Philip Morris ("The only leading cigarette to be proved definitely and measurably less irritating...