Word: throating
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...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
...Every time one of the serried array of learned counsel . . . clears his throat or blows a bugle call on his proboscis, a cost of 69.4 cents is imposed on the estate, assuming that indulgence in either of these forensic flourishes consumes a single second of time...
...Jolson Theatre in Manhattan. Gallo provided the stuff that was expected of him, including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...
...this unseemly delay, however, there come the glad tidings that the opening game will be a truly gala affair. The band which has hitherto spent early season Saturdays practicing its mystical evolutions has overcome self-consciousness and will appear in true November fashion. This clearing of its brassy throat depends, of course, upon the arrival of uniforms, but indeed without rakishly set sailor caps and boldly crimson sweaters, the band would cut but a sorry figure...
...judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat. . . . Somewhere out where the hispid branches swayed, I know there was a man with white canine teeth giving vent to BLACK LAUGHTER! ... A long time passed . . . then gradually I began to realize that the room had become filled with an extraordinary odor, an odor of putrifying blood and rotting flesh, the odor...