Word: boa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Each summer freshmen at the Pennsylvania State College summer forestry camp are made to eat a dish of rattlesnake. African Negroes relish boa-constrictors...
...Manhattan last fortnight, George Hicks, 60, clumsy, careless, fell off a subway platform. Before he could scramble up the edge again, a train, like a big boa came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks...
...reported favorably. Then Mr. Ford asked for and received a concession of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres in Para, in the Amazon Valley, a black jungle along the Tapajos River, that crawls all the way from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield wipers, floor mats, balloon tires. If Mr. Ford's plantation progresses in Brazil...
...Quem nao tern visto Lisbon, noa tern visto cousa boa...
...This "sucuri" was an anaconda, water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...