Word: throating
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...Maplewood, N. J., Muriel Bick. 2, sucked a Smith button into her throat. She lived. "Muriel remains a Smith supporter," said Mother Bick...
...Neumann also would like to purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore her clothes, beat her, threw her out of the automobile. As Mrs. Neumann started to walk back to Paris she distinctly heard a laugh as the gigolo's automobile disappeared in the shade of the St. Germain woods...
...suggest in this connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN...
Architect Edouard Moravicz stood nearby admiring his building, last week, when it began to sway ever so little. Horror gripped his throat, his eyes bulged, and then he screamed?well knowing that 120 laborers were at work within the toppling structure...