Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four Albert E. Hayes Jr., wash down 42 fish with four bottles of chocolate soda. He stopped, explained Freshman Hayes, because '42 were his class numerals. Said he: "You lay the goldfish well back on the tongue, let it wiggle forward till it hits the top of the throat, then give one big gulp. Same effect as swallowing a raw oyster...
When she was two years old, Mrs. Agnes Gregory of Kansas City swallowed some lye, seared the delicate lining of her throat and gullet. The painful burns healed, but new scar tissue gradually filled in the passage to her stomach. After about 25 years, her gullet was so constricted that Mrs. Gregory could swallow only liquids. After 30 years she could swallow nothing...
Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
Lately all he had left were his memories. Last week he no longer needed the $100 a month which the estate of J. P. Morgan Sr. had been sending him: at the Home for Incurables, cancer of the throat brought death to 78-year-old Pliny Fisk...
...addition to these physical obstacles, numerous other evils attend costly dances. Chief of these is cut-throat competition between the Houses, apparently carried on with a fond belief in the possibility of driving some Houses out of business altogether. Another evil, directly resulting from the present ruling, is the tendency of orchestras to make their minimum the House's maximum and hold out for a higher figure than they would ordinarily demand...