Word: boas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haeseler '23, director of the Film Foundation, was faced yesterday afternoon with the problem of making a baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...
After a raid the victors hold a ceremonial dance around the captured heads. Boys who had never before been in a fight have chicken blood smeared on their legs and feast distensively. Boys with their first heads get drunk and talk with visionary jaguars, boa constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months...
Since the War General Nogales has written Four Years Beneath the Crescent, The Looting of Nicaragua. If jaguars, hurricanes, boa constrictors, crocodiles, firing squads do not get him first, Venezuela may be liberated...
East of Borneo (Universal) is a combination of The Green Goddess and Trader Horn, of Hollywood and the Malay peninsula. Its heroine (Rose Hobart) is imperiled by the lechery of a brownskin potentate in silk leggings and by the lions, tigers, leopards, boa constrictors, crocodiles and monkeys of a jungle which seems to be more densely populated than a stadium football game and to contain an even larger collection of queer pelts and extraordinary noises. As is usually the case in films with which wild animals are intimately connected, the story is both quaint and trivial. A married lady penetrates...
Meantime, Newell and an Indian tried to capture a large Anaconda boa constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...