Word: ferring
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...know just what name to use when we're a-talkin' about the King of England. Ever sence he got ashamed of his family name durin' the War an' changed it, we're all of a doodad to find a handle fer him. But last Sunday after Bible-class I got next to some kahlege kids an' asked them fer a proper, respectful title that TIME magazine could use in referrin' to George V, an' we thunk an' thunk fer a long time. We wanted something dignified, with plenty of dash...
...Casino at Monte Carlo was crowded last week for the first time since France, Italy, Germany and Austria greedily legalized chemin de fer and roulette and plunged little Monaco into Depression. True, the crowds were not around the tables but they were inside, and the directors were chuckling that it at least looked like old times. In jam-packed rows the crowds stood dumbly around one cashier's cage, staring. On the counter stood three gleaming cylinders of neatly piled gold pieces, ready to pay off the winners at one table. They were...
...last year Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium...
...Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually nesting...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...