Word: throating
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Last week Admiral Evans was back in Bechuanaland. Thousands of grinning black tribesmen gibbered and cheered as he received Chief Tshekedi. Under the same withered figtree where the sentence of suspension had been read, the Admiral cleared his throat...
...just as inescapable for the students concentrating in Fine Arts, though for a different reason. Naturally, Fine Arts 1d, essential to the cookie-pusher, is useless to the serious student. Too superficial in treatment to be of service, even as a background, it is nevertheless crammed down the throat of the concentrator, who emerges equipped with a multitude of prejudices of which he spends the rest of his college career ridding himself...
...Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting to feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon the water...
...little fellows' day. Leaning out the windows of the Presidential Palace and joking with the crowd, Batista & friends had the time of their lives. Batista shouted so much that he developed a sore throat. The crowd liked their show. But they peered again into Cuba's pot and saw something else...
...month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want the drinking public to pay their taxes and the brewers and distillers want to make fortunes from your money...