Word: cobras
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...such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very day the tomb was opened a cobra ate the chief explorer's canary...
...Afghanistan. Though the Afghans are delightedly proud of their independence, Western influence was still obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
...Cornered Cobra. It was wonderful the way Bill and later on the reporters talked about Bill's fearless, shameless, icy-eyed alter ego, George Murman. Bill had been about 13 when he met George. Right away, George had tried to get Bill (who had a police record of his own) to go out prowling fire escapes in the night...
Even when he was talking under sodium pentothal, Bill said that George robbed for pleasure, and killed like a cobra when cornered. And besides, he was forever whispering terrible things in Bill's secret...
Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on fair terms with Chua, a regular rat. But except in Kipling's enchanted garden, rats are the mongoose's standard prey, and are responsible for most of its progress around the world...