Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling had myopia. On him, the squint looked...
...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Into the cobra-comic coils of this superb comedy team fall mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, lovers and mistresses, P.T.A. chairmen and guest speakers. The subjects may be common, but the hilarity...
...feeding white mice to the snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child...
...venom), he developed a savage headache within minutes. His parents rushed him to Katella Hospital in nearby Stanton. As the evening wore on, Ken's mouth tightened up. He had difficulty talking, then in swallowing, finally in breathing. Through the night, doctors gave him small doses of cobra antivenin...
...Because cobra venom is chemically akin to the tiger snake...