Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Muttering incantations which charmers profess the snakes know and heed, the aged snake man moved about the villa and grounds. "Come forth, O snakes, in the name of Allah! In the name of Allah, O snakes, come out of your holes," he chanted in archaic Arabic. Suddenly he sank to his knees, began to blow a slow, wailing melody on his reed pipe, swaying his body as he played. Out from hiding slid the hooded head of a young cobra, then another and another, until nine young reptiles appeared, raised their bodies from the ground and riveted their eyes...
...first two weeks of French mobilization were featured by unholy traffic jams and messes. Aghast, however, was Paris last week to learn that, if war had come, a large, percentage of the capital's population would have lacked gas masks-a fine French scandal for which no culprit or scapegoat had been found up to this week. Meanwhile, energetic, square-jawed Radical Socialist Premier Edouard Daladier was greeted by the French Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence in what he did at Munich, 535-to-75-nearly all the dissenters being Communists...
...Chvalkovsky has busied himself getting on the best personal terms with Herr Hitler and with Signor Mussolini, who is said to have once sent him this message in Rome: "Come over and see me, I am tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter...
...bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...
...Francisco Bay last week went Blackie and Buster Olds, at the same time but from different points. Trainer Roberts trailed behind Blackie, hanging on to a cord attached to his tail. When old Blackie had finished his industrious swim, not only had he beaten Buster Olds but also had come within two minutes and 31 seconds of beating the record...