Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...
...triangular, necks thin, bodies stout, tails short, eyes with elliptical pupils like a cat's. Fangs fold back against the roof of the mouth. A single row of scales runs along the belly. The biggest U. S. snake is the eastern diamond-back rattler, which grows to nine feet...
Like a Broadway musical show, jazz rhythms set listeners' feet a-tapping. But appearances to the contrary, Jonny Spielt Auf* is no ordinary musical show, no Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...
...Last night the most ruinous fire since the foundation of the college visited Harvard. It was a cold wintry night, when about midnight we were awakened by the cry of 'Fire'. Harvard Hall, 42 feet wide, 97 feet long, and four stories high, built in 1672 was in flames...
...sagas seldom fail to be interesting, and this account of last summer's ocean race to Spain is no exception to the rule. All the details of the trip over in the winning schooner, the "Elena," a boat only a little more than 100 feet long over all, are told by the daughter of the "Skipper" and owner...