Word: serpentes
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Science has tried to explain away most of the cases of reported monsters on the basis of facts known about living animals, but it is still stumped by several cases, Rosenbaum said. One of these is the Gloucester Harbor sea serpent, a 60-foot long humped back, snake-headed, smooth skinned piece of horror which appeared before hundreds of people on August...
...Serpent of the Nile. The second night brought far vaster sweep, but greater sprawl. A marvel of language, full of what Coleridge called Shakespeare's "angelic strength," Antony with its 42 scenes is also full of history's tumultuous, haphazard movement. Not angelic wings, but seven-league boots are needed for this panoramic drama of conquests and civil wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate...
...Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...
...Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent, which has its coils in so many satellite states of Europe and Asia...
...birth of a game called "Museum Ball" which probably comes closer to the witty Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine; the cinema and book columns lag far behind their British counterparts...