Word: hooded
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Through the long grass a cobra glided toward the dark-eyed little girl as she lay in the garden, reading. Silently it slithered behind her, raised its head, spread its threatening hood. As her father, looking up from his book, saw the cobra swaying above her, he whispered a tense warning not to move. Realizing that some danger lurked behind her, she stayed quite still until the snake slid away into the grass. From that day on, her superstitious mother was sure that a great destiny awaited the little girl, for there is an old Indian legend that luck will...
...problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed by "Delta and I will go out and butter up some of the key peasants." At last they decided that "some of the key peasants" meant "some...
...vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold eye. But the yegg is just a softie under his shell...
...than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...
Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was a hood with class. His home outside Beverly Hills was a tourist showpiece. He dined with Barbara Hutton, went yachting with Countess Dorothy di Frasso...