Word: throatedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which now the pulse was still throbbing, throbbing with the terrible vitality of women...
Rawboned Marie David crammed a sponge down the throat of a neighbor's baby that cried too much...
Blanche Vabre, even bigger and more forbidding than Mme. David, chopped off the ten fingers which her 16-year-old stepson had raised in terror to protect his throat, and with another slash almost severed the boy's neck...
...James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing a hat with a cluster of small white lovebirds in front. "He gasped with horror, pointed his finger, and said with utter kindness. 'My child, my very dear child-the cruelty-ah! the cruelty of your hat! That once...