Word: throating
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...usual, Sir John spoke in such low tones that most of the House had to strain and cup ears, this time for 127 minutes. He refreshed himself occasionally with a few drops of Lady Simon's personally concocted throat mixture (lemon juice, brown sugar and honey), sipped gingerly from a tiny horn...
...striped knitting bags. On the walls were displayed innumerable French newspapers and magazines. At other tables been more matrons were plugging tickets for Les Jours Heureux, a play to be given soon by L'Alliance Frncaise. And from every corner, from each table, from almost every double-chinned throat came the meticulous machine-gun syllables of France. There was good and bad French, Parisian and Cambridge French, plus a minor torrent of Berlitz, Quebec, Linguaphone, Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected...
...good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
...floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father. She remembered she did not have a nickel for a pay phone...
...girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley. As a radio character, unfortunately, Curley is washed up. Denouement of the play, done with a full catch-in-the-throat, is the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly...