Word: throating
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...Cutting and Franklin Roosevelt virtually fell into each other's political arms. There was every reason for their doing so; they had in common Groton, Harvard, a back-ground of wealth and a love for forgotten men. By 1934 Franklin Roosevelt was at Bronson Cutting's political throat. The break between them was not spectacular. The beginning of it, though neither of them recognized it. took place before the Roosevelt inauguration when Senator Cutting, independent as always, declined the job of Secretary of the Interior offered him in return for his support of Roosevelt...
...this pearl of wisdom. Yet had be written in just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more...
...candidate cleared his throat, opened his mouth to speak, then closed it again as a blank expression appeared on his face. The senior member of the committee stirred in his chair. He too cleared his throat, and the now silent group of scholars turned to listen...
...glides a La Salle limousine. Out of it steps a gentleman in full evening dress and top hat. With a few nimble bounds, he overtakes the fleeing Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman, who has now recovered, the immaculate avenger doffs his topper, bows from the waist saying, "Your purse, Madam," steps quickly back into his limousine, purrs away into the night. . . . Should a Hollywood producer present such a scene...
...cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...