Word: throating
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...prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt at the red-painted wooden block. Six times the executioner's broad sward flashed in a silver circle to crash down on a human neck...
...Sailor (Warner). When, in this picture, a sailor says to Joe E. Brown. ''I ought to cut your throat from ear to ear," another remarks: "Someone's done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure...
...which he had cut off, wrapped up with clumsy neatness. Gauguin left, and soon after the Mayor ordered van Gogh locked up in the insane ward of the hospital. After that there was no telling when the mad fit would seize him, and he would scream till his throat was inflamed. At the asylum at Saint-Remy they let him paint, off & on, eventually released him in care of a doctor, nearer Paris and Theo. But the doctor, an art connoisseur, enraged van Gogh by his cavalier treatment of artists whom his patient revered. One day he terrified the doctor...
...wait 13 years, but now I am back at my old job," gaily remarked George "Baldy" Guindon, as he carefully poured out the ingredients of a potent Dry Martini intended for a certain parched throat. George is again tending bar at the Parker House Hotel, where 35 years ago he obtained a job as an assistant bartender...
...reporter was reconverted to Christian hope. Leaving the theatre, he overheard Miss Ida May Sparrow, who plays the leading feminine role. She complained to the manager concerning the imperfect acoustics of the stage. (Mr. Dixon, the reporter then recalled, was afflicted at the time with a hoarse throat...