Word: tonsil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major miracle," cracked Variety, and more sedate critics generally agreed: for once, the bejeweled opening-night audience at the Metropolitan Opera actually seemed more interested in the opera than in itself. The reason, as Variety reported, was that the company had "put its best tonsil forward." The chosen 4,000-who had paid a record $59,961 admission, with orchestra seats at $30-heard as fine a Forza del Destino as modern Metgoers could remember...
Doctors used to snip out tonsils right & left. They thought that the tonsils did no good, that large tonsils were always infected, that infected tonsils could cause all manner of serious diseases, so they were "better out." The operation was supposed to be so trivial that any physician could do it in his office. The result, for a generation or so, was "the massacre of the tonsil...