Word: throating
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General Ivan Kharin, " richest man in Russia," before the war, died of cancer of the throat in a Copenhagen hospital. Uncle by marriage to the Grand Duchess Olga, he was well known in Danish society...
...opposite, and in so doing reasserted the old Democratic doctrine of States Eights, lends an unusual political significance to his act. His friends assert that it makes him certain of the Vice Presidency nomination on the Democratic ticket next fall. Others are equally certain that he cut his political throat. Whichever may be the case, it was an unusually clever move of his to base his action, bound to offend the Drys, on a fundamental doctrine of the Democratic Party...
...sticks and castor oil. The Socialists are: M. Marc Sangnier, leader of the Socialist Radical Party; M. Marius Moutet, a prominent defender in the Caillaux trial; M. Viollette, formerly Minister of Subsistence. Said M. Sangnier: " They can cover me with tar and force castor oil down my throat, but they can never win me to their methods...
...case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died, was esteemed a wonder because he had a voice left at that age, although it had sunk to a high baritone. The tenor throat is a delicate instrument that survives few misfortunes, least of all that of time...
...announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel...