Word: serpent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inclosing a clipping from the Dayton Journal. The morning newspaper which printed the story, unlike its sister afternoon headliner the Herald and Jimmy Cox's* News, is usually quite unsensational, commonplace, dull and unimportant?it seldom "probes" or "raps." I do not think it even prints an annual sea-serpent story. So much for the implied authenticity of the story. PAUL...
...University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...
Four miles south of Paalmul, at Chakalal, we found a temple, on whose interior walls were painted red hands and the jaguar and the feathered serpent...
...gods commonly portrayed in painting and sculpture the jaguar was second in importance only to the plumed serpent, Kukulcan. This serpent of ours has no plume, but he does have a bird's foot with distended claws at the extremity of a sort of dragon's leg attached to his body. This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took it to the pole opposite that of such realistic portrayal...
YOUNG WOODLEY - An English schoolboy's introduction to the serpent sex. Including Glenn Hunter...