Word: boa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing the green grin of bravado...
...Berlin, in the Circus Busch, one Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...
...Hamburg, Germany, lived a boa constrictor. He was the pride of the municipal zoo, and all day he reclined in his cell, staring down with absorbed eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become...
...Louis. If Joseph Stecher, Nebraska wrestler, wraps his legs around a pig, he can break its ribs; his weapon, like the boa-constrictor's, is the squeeze; famed is his scissors hold. Last week, in St. Louis, he wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko, known as "The Old Man."* Zbyszko curled his legs and arms underneath his body so that the scissors was ineffectual, wriggled, writhed; but, after 1 hr. 23 min., he groaned, admitted defeat. Stecher took the next fall in 5 min., earned the right to meet Edward ("Strangler") Lewis, world's champion...
...members of the party. Hinton will take along a big seaplane for aerial exploration and to protect the expedition against the cannibals of the region by bombing, if necessary. Previous experiences of the Rices dictated this precaution. Swanson will establish a complete broadcasting and receiving station, WJS, at Boa Vista, on the upper Rio Branco, in Brazil, near British Guiana...