Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comely half-breed, common-law wife, Arvilla Kinslea. Arvilla Kinslea was propped up in a chair, wrapped in a bloodstained sheet. The living room was littered with broken crockery of which she had apparently been the target. Her face was ragged with lacerations. A deep gash in her throat had severed her jugular vein...
...Like Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which broke Japanese barriers erected in captured sectors of the Chapei slums, carried Chinese screaming with triumph into mastery of numerous crooked alleyways and shattered streets. Japanese and Chinese machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders...
...Lakeview, Ore., a mad coyote attacked Marvin Gess, 7, bit him five times in the calf of one leg. Ranchers clubbed the coyote to death, slit its throat, pried its jaws loose from Marvin Gess's calf...
...over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things can never be the same again. As Elissa Landi bitterly remarks: "At home Jean ties father's cravat, and in Parliament he tries to cut his throat." Jean's double job is too much for him: Count Mariassy does not mind being called "a political ventriloquist" in public, but he hates having his beer warm and his bath cold. Soon Count Mariassy's Conservatives are swept out; Jean is the coming man. At this point...
However the present plan now adopted, is a very generous one, and it is better that it should come now than at some later time, when some newly-passed law might have forced it down the University throat...