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...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...
...Sweet Stuff, 5 ft. 7 in., nine-year-old rattler owned by Dr. Frank Sweet: the Arkansas Rattlesnake Derby; defeating a field of 47 defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...
...partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...
After a consultation with his colleagues, amazingly Premier Hayashi indicated that he would sit tight no matter what Japan's voters thought. With the fighting forces, if not the voters, behind him, this sabre-rattler bellowed: "I hope the new members of the Diet will sacrifice personal interests and serve the higher interests of the nation, thus promoting constitutional politics and fulfilling the great task of assisting the Emperor during the present emergency period...
...taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...