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...since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...
...suit by a similar courtroom gesture. A Mrs. Marion Owens, watching some Park Department tree sprayers, was accidentally hit in her open mouth by a squirt of insecticide. Although the Park Department claimed the spray was an oil mixture harmless to humans, Mrs. Owens alleged that it burned her throat. Last week in court, Assistant Corporation Counsel Aaron J. Arnold lifted a pint bottle of the insecticide to his lips, downed a lusty swig, won the case...
Tears are constantly secreted by glands which get their water from the blood and lie just above the outer curve of each eyeball. Tears float slowly over the eyeballs and drain into the nose and throat through two holes at the inner corner of each eye. Ordinarily this flow & drainage of tears is imperceptible, and serves simply to keep the eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts...
Answering a query from Dr. Robert N. Coats of Weiser, Idaho, who has a patient claiming sinus and ear trouble as the result of exposure to tear gas, the Journal pontificated: "It is reasonable to believe that enough irritation of the eyes or throat may be produced by tear gases to pave the way for secondary bacterial invasion, with ensuing pharyngitis and conjunctivitis on occasion. The possibility of the production of sinusitis and otitis media secondary to irritation by chloroacetophenone [commonest tear gas] is not at all fantastic. Chloroacetophenone is not the practically harmless substance it is commonly reputed...
...neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent its being sucked into his throat like a cork at every inhalation...