Word: throating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sweating faces of the four crew members into a brown paste. Beads of sweat trickle down from under their leather helmets and goggles, curl around their noses and cheekbones. Even dust masks, that they wear to filter out the dust, do not save them from coughs and rasping "tank throat...
...tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...
...HEART IN HER THROAT - Ethel Lina White -Harper ($2). The dark secret of a long-vacant house in an English town terrorized by a homicidal maniac who plays hob with the nerves of a pretty young governess. She barely escapes death in leading police to the solution of a super-spooky yarn. The author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes) turns in another master thriller...
Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
...Council committee's purpose is to deal firmly with agents who never quote the same prices twice and to put the brakes on cut-throat dance competition in order to permit dance chairmen to use black ink in their ledgers for a change. A wise choice of time is a vital factor in holding a successful dance and to deny a central committee power here as the individuals propose, is to nullify all its other good offices. Last spring's jumbled, conflicting dance schedule is a good example of what happens under "autonomy." By eliminating competition for dances, the inter...