Word: scorpion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding the scorpion of Cuban politics with a charmed life. President Carlos Mendieta last week threw himself to the floor of his automobile as a bomb exploded beside the road. To such unreasoning attacks Mendieta has a stock reply and he made it again last week: "I am ready to resign as soon as Cuba has selected a government to succeed this provisional one over which I preside." Put into office a year ago. Mendieta has scheduled elections for March...
...musty corner of a Long Beach, Calif, garage last week was fought another newsworthy battle when a deadly black-widow spider met a venomous scorpion three times her size and weight. Taking the upper hand at the start, the spider slowly spun sticky strands about the scorpion's forelegs, pinioned one of its knifelike pincers. By the second day odds among the scores of spectators who thronged the garage were 4-to-1 on the spider, with few takers. On the third day the spider began to enmesh the scorpion's stinger in her web, boosted betting odds...
...other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...
...last ten years, endless to Oxonians, the motley millions who roar from the banks of the river and from the big brewery windows, the tumultuous holiday crowd of picnickers, cheap-jacks, street musicians and acrobats have cheered "Caa-a-am-bridge!" as the light blue's eight-legged scorpion came skating over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat...
...European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink themselves deathward on scattered plantations. In the unmapped interior roam man-eating lions, hostile natives, rumors of an unkillable rebel chief. The Governor, aptly nicknamed the Scorpion, is a polished gentleman grown old in disease and expedient wickedness. He welcomes Jeronimo, gives him the job of mapping the unknown interior. But he distrusts him, sends after him to have him arrested...