Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Identifying poisonous snakes is easy. Most of them belong to the pit-viper family. They have a deep depression between eye and nostril. Heads are flat and triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
...hour later Mr. Young was back at 120 Broadway, behind his business-like desk, facing reporters. For a whole month he has refused to talk; but now he put words like pistol shots, with candor and precision. More was learned in five minutes about the new Committee and what it purposes to accomplish than correspondents have been able to guess in the last six months...
Name of Committee. Since European papers are already talking about the "Young Committee" and the "Young Plan," reporters asked Mr. Young why he insisted on referring to the new aggregation as the "Second Dawes Committee." The issue seemed one of cloying modesty, but Mr. Young shot back an answer clean as a pistol bullet...
...indeed was Mary Garden last week as Fiora in the Chicago Civic Opera's L'Amore del Tre Re. Basso Virgilio Lazzari as the blind Archibaldo had strangled her, thrown her body easily* over his shoulder, started for the wings. But, once deposited there, she fainted. Her back had been badly sprained. Yet rather than disappoint friends she went to a tea given in her honor, chatted and smiled for two hours before she went home for doctor's treatment...
...middle of the town, a railroad terminal with real trains, the terminal exit with a real automobile, the terminal's tracks again-and then the station's great clock swelling into a revolving globe with the Woolworth building and the Statue of Liberty for successive back drops, gay streamers, U. S. flags, the people all dancing madly and from the top of the world, fiddling them on, Jonny...