Word: throating
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...glee-clubs of Armour, Beloit, Chicago, Grinnell, Illinois, Iowa, Knox, Lake Forest, Michigan, Millikin, Northwestern, Purdue, Wabash and Wisconsin colleges and universities. After every rendering of the ballad, judges made notes, announced at length that of all seats of learning in the mid-U. S., Wisconsin is sweetest of throat; Michigan is second, they said; Grinnell, third...
...vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise of the career that opened before him, enjoyed life immensely? when he did not happen to have a sore throat...
...fortify his health, he started on a walking tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned...
Pizarro still lies in Lima. At least they say it is he?the shriveled corpse in a glass coffin, scaled these four centuries, with a foot hacked off, a hand gone, a slash in its throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy...
...Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like Hell's lava; in the kermesse scene, he spun circles about the stage, silently, slowly, like Eden's snake risen from its belly. The cast supporting him had undergone changes for the better since last season: Antonia...