Word: pythons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worldwide food shortage also affected the animal market. In some places, monkeys were being eaten instead of exported. Large animals could not be kept in captivity, awaiting U.S. dealers, or shipped, because there was not enough food to feed them. Only pythons (worth $5 to $10 a foot in the U.S.) were relatively unaffected. They are often caught after they have stolen and gorged a whole sheep or goat. The lucky dealer could ship a python to the U.S. and sell it without ever having to feed...
...North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...
...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...