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Rolling around the Treasury behind an escort of cavalry, Mr. Coolidge and The Chief heard the throat-rasping cheers of early-comers in the stands along the route to the Capitol. The Coolidge silk hat moved up and down in frequent response to this acclamation. The Chief's headpiece moved less frequently. One irreverent youth screamed "Oh you Herbie!" from the sidewalk...
...dais a thin blond man in a choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
Rawboned Marie David crammed a sponge down the throat of a neighbor's baby that cried too much...
Blanche Vabre, even bigger and more forbidding than Mme. David, chopped off the ten fingers which her 16-year-old stepson had raised in terror to protect his throat, and with another slash almost severed the boy's neck...
...Washington, D. C., a malignant growth was removed, last week, from the throat of Robert D. Ford, Assistant Prohibition Administrator of Baltimore. The growth was believed to have resulted from a piece of grass which Mr. Ford chewed and swallowed, two years...