Word: rattler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juvenile thriller addicts, young or old, have a new radio hero. Chick Carter, the boy detective, is making life pretty difficult for The Rattler, a man with a foreign accent who through sabotage, blackmail, robbery and murder is trying to wreck the vital war industries of Midvale. Can Chick and his companions help Major Pennington protect his new war invention from The Rattler? (Answers given Mondays through Fridays, 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. E.W.T. over WOR-Mutual...
...playing with a pretty red, black and yellow snake in the garden. She ran it through her fingers like a necklace. She was more terrified than ever when she discovered that it was a deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where she killed a moccasin in her bathroom with a Sears Roebuck catalogue...
...Rattler...
...reaction to finding Herr Hitler on the cover of your outstanding magazine was similar to that pronounced feeling of distaste experienced once last summer when I stooped to admire a clump of lovely wild flowers-and gazed at the coiled mass of a rattler...
...Eden. Elyot, as the blurb says, "represents death," Eden "struggles up to life," the mother "wavers between the two." They are presented, in their mutual oppositions, with considerable psychological skill. It all converges, in the long run, on sex for each. Elyot, a scholar, a "raker of dust, a rattler of bones," winds up in bed with an art-gallery Jewess as hard & cold as chromium. Eden, a sultry semi-Marxist, follows an abortion with a hot, sterile series of affairs, finds what she needs in a calm carpenter who dies for Loyalist Spain. As for their red-haired mother...