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Word: cobras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate to say it and I know some persons who don't like snakes are very nice persons but Mr. Bean was frightened and frightened persons will exaggerate. I do not feel I was guilty of carelessness. I just forgot, simply forgot, to close the door to the cobras' cage after I cleaned it. I couldn't do everything at once. All other snakes that got away were harmless except Bandy-Bandy and I'm sure he went down the drain pipe. The cobra," she added affectionately, "just found the coziest place it could in the whole reptile house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apples | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Died, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, 79, surgeon-in-chief of the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, later researcher in the therapeutic effects of snake venom in cancer and nerve ailments;* of chronic leucemia, possibly the result of inhaling particles of powdered cobra venom in 1930; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...scenes may be questioned, this film maintains a sustained interest until the end for the person who is admittedly a wild animal fan. Although the technical realist may be unconvinced by the well-photographed hand-to-hand encounters of Frank Buck with a giant python and king cobra in turn, such scenes may prove quite absorbing...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/25/1934 | See Source »

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