Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean who is not afraid to admit, "I am deadly afraid of snakes." The Bandy...
...Church than does all of Europe. With Irish blue eyes, the Shepherd of New York was once considered handsome but illness during the past few years has left its stamp. He lives simply in small quarters, arises daily at 6:30 a. m., celebrates Mass, served by a boy sent over from Cathedral College. He eats little, grumbled about luxury when some friends had a shower bath in stalled in his house. He entertains not at all, but Papal Marquis MacDonald drops in and so does the most famed member of the Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Rita S. Halle Kleeman (Appleton-Century, $3.50). In it appeared a quotation from a diary in which Husband James Roosevelt, 26 years older than she, exulted thus over the birth of their only child: "Monday, January 30, 1882. At quarter to nine my Sallie had a splendid large baby boy. He weighs ten pounds without his clothes...
...most amusing experience I ever had at Harvard was sitting in the lap of that stern old statue located in the middle of the Yard. Gee, I have a picture of it! My boy friend told me that it was John Harvard, and was considered quite sacred by Harvard students, although I believe I saw a picture in the papers several years ago of that same statue with a cute little bull dog posed at its feet. It was that same day that I noticed how intense everyone seemed that I saw on the campus. You young men should relax...
...writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know if he had missed his chance to play in his team's big game...