Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he could say or do more, panting overcoated policemen pounced on him, knocked him to the pavement, bloodied his nose. King George and the Cabinet stood like ramrods, eyes front, ignoring the scuffle (see cut). Queen Elizabeth gasped, clutched at her throat, then relaxed when danger was past. The tousled protestant turned out to be one Stanley Storey, escaped from the Cane Hill Insane Asylum on Sept...
...Commotion broke out in the Rio Grande do Sul bailiwick of swashbuckling Governor José Flores da Cunha, whom President Vargas had to replace with a Federal military interventor. A temporary lifting of the state of war for campaign purposes soon had Brazil's Leftists noisily at the throat of Brazil's green-shirted Fascist Integralistas, whose leader Plinio Salgado wears a Hitler mustache and advocates in misty Portuguese a "corporative State." Last fortnight more serious trouble appeared. The Departmento Nacional do Café, which has destroyed $638,750,000 worth of Brazil's surplus coffee...
Cause. Until last week the cause of measles was uncertain. Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...research may be a vaccine against measles. But there are immediate results which Columbia's efficient publicity department promptly caused Dr. Broadhurst to advocate. Said she: "Nurses and doctors will no longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present. More important still, they...
Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills...