Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured gag, and W. R. Hearst wired his congratulations...
First they compared what happened when the patient tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
...C.I.O.'s purge of Communist-line union bosses was beginning to get rough. President Phil Murray had ordered the huge United Auto Workers to swallow up the little, leftist Farm Equipment Workers. Last week in East Moline, Ill., the first bite proved pretty indigestible...
Psychiatrically, the picture appears valid. Although the unusual problems of a neurotic veteran with a guilt complex and an analyst who can't swallow his own pills seem always consistent and never phony, I couldn't help wishing that "Mine Own Executioner" had dug a little deeper into some of the most interesting, though less spectacular cases, that popped up here or there. The picture was designed to create suspense, and it looks like the writers slipped in justification for the tense climax afterwards. The suspense is there all right, but you've seen that part before...
SELECTED POEMS (63 pp.)-Elizabeth Daryush-Selected by Yvor Winters-Swallow-Morrow...