Word: copperhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spending is a 'bad' word. Avoid it like a copperhead. Talk about Government running expenses and Government plant. Talk about putting the Government budget on a business basis, rather than about triple budgets or capital budgets. If spending must be discussed, always remember that every dollar spent by the Government is usually a dollar of sales on the books of some business man. Keep spending firmly associated with sales, wages, purchasing power-all good words...
...been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home. "I'll hold out faithful to the end," he gasped. Last week he summoned doctors. No toxicologists, they watched him die, declined to say whether...
...founder of a new sect digs up his wife's grave, is bitten by a copperhead. His corpse is then arrested by the constable on the charge of "Public Indecency...
...need a mouse for the snake trap, I have a mouse trap, to catch the mouse to catch the snake with. I catch a copperhead snake first time I try. Always tell a copperhead because he smells like cucumbers. Now I make a trap for alligators. But not for elephant. He walks away...
Under the University Museum, the same Department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of Oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish, and a few frogs...