Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgin Islands squabble had now been inflated to the point where it required direct intervention by the President of the U. S. Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field...
...where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange, rhythmic gurgling and throat-clearing stopped, Minister Owsley replied in his own broad Texas accent: "I am proud on this eventful occasion in this historic Dublin Castle...
Since Adolf Hitler's organs of speech are rated by Nazis the Fatherland's most precious possession, Germans were busy last week setting up a special summer Realmchancellory at famed Bad Reichenhall, No. 1 resort in Germany for the cure of throat ailments, today a boomtown jam-packed with many a recuperating brownshirt Demosthenes...
...nose & throat specialists argued the persistence of onion and garlic odor on the breath was due to: 1) the essential, odorous oil of such vegetables passing into the blood stream during digestion, being aerated from the blood into the lungs, and then being expired; 2) the essential oil appearing in the saliva by secretion from the blood passing through the salivary glands; 3) the odor passing up into the mouth from the stomach during digestion...
Some time ago Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, Yale physiologist, by chance attended a dinner of nose & throat specialists. One of the rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable...