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White Flag! Up the staff of the "Pink House" as General Uriburu approached rose jerkily a white flag. But inside tern" porary President Martinez had not quite surrendered. As the sword-rattler clanked into the President's office with his staff the civilian faced him calmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Biggest Revolution | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

Mickey, a Florida terrier, who jumped in front of his small master and took a diamond-back rattler's bite. Mickey died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Spratt Award | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Emil Schlichtmann, noting her young daughters' fear of a snake in their yard, told them: "Little beasties like this are harmless, and you must not be afraid." She patted the snake's head, was promptly bitten. The snake was a young rattler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...stage again. Very soon she was unfaithful to him. simple-minded Coke suspecting nothing. Regan saw what was going on, tried to warn Coke; they drifted apart. Once when Regan was drunk he spoke out; Coke knocked him down. Then they were enemies : Regan tore up their contract, coached Rattler O'Keefe to take Coke's title away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boxer | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...cutting our way with machete hatchets through dense underbrush, now wading through water up to our knees, with the ever-present fear of the moccasin snake, whose bite is more deadly than that of the rattler, we made our way into the heart of a comparatively unknown region...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Expedition Enters Wilds of Everglade Region--Clench Tells of Search for Valuable Specimens | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

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