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...friend Mr. MacDonald sent along on the Rodney two M.P.'s and two Members of the House of Lords. One of the latter was peppery Baron Newton who, in a recent furious attack upon the Labor Government for recognizing Russia, called Bolsheviks "un attractive animals which, like boa constrictors and alligators, accept food, only to show their ingratitude by swallowing their keepers" (TIME, March...
...Manhattan, when Henry Bartels went to a recently docked ocean liner to claim six boa constrictors he had ordered from South America, he was presented with 53. Said the ship's captain: "Forty-seven were born on the way up here. Ship six, pay for six, get 53. That's a break...
...rabbit, but not nearly so full flavored. A dog nicely cooked is better than cat." Puleston saw some strange sights: a human sacrifice of over 100 victims, to provide a bath of blood for a native king; a crucifixion; a fight between two crocodiles, between a native and a boa constrictor. Twice he met Explorer Stanley, "discoverer" of Livingstone. Says Puleston: Stanley's real name was John Rowlands...
...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...