Word: pythoned
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...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
...calls to her, collect, and never said a word. She won a divorce on the ground of cruelty. In Minneapolis, John Hilton Stiles won one on the complaint that his wife lived with a dozen rattlesnakes, a number of copperheads, coral snakes and water moccasins, a 9-ft. Indian python, a Siamese hooded cobra, an African green mamba...
...difficult return journey some men went without food for long stretches. They ate bamboo shoots, mule steaks cut from their pack animals, elephant meat, boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
...drawing a wife, who is calmly drinking a highball, says to her husband who has just been swallowed by a python: "Oh, speak up, George! Stop mumbling...
When the animals are talking their own language and roaming their improvised jungle near Los Angeles, Jungle Book is as absorbing as a behind-the-scenes trip to the zoo. But when they converse in Kipling's English, the result is painful. The python sounds like Lionel Barrymore; the cobra, who is very long winded, like a wheezy crackerbox philosopher; a tough monkey like a Tammany ward heeler...