Word: pythons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some places the growth was so thick "that without a watch you would mistake midday for daybreak or sunset." Some days, cutting a trail with machetes, the party progressed as little as two miles. Boggy ground made walking hazardous. Food grew scarce, and dysentery developed. Once a 20-foot python knocked down a soldier. Men who fell ill returned to Moyobamba...
...S.P.C.A. hauled a cootch dancer known as Zorita into a Manhattan court for cruelty to animals. The charge: that she put Scotch Tape over the jaws of an 8-ft. python named Elmer before cavorting in the near-nude with the snake coiled around her torso...
Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...
...Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras; Roxy, the nine-foot python; Perky, the water moccasin. They made her hobby, her life's study and her reputation as one of the nation's top herpetologists. Last week she readily agreed to pose for pictures with her newest pet: a five-foot cobra she had just received from India...
...those who looked long enough, every member of Acrobats' painted cast came alive. Among the performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...