Word: serpentes
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...serpent has at last broken from forced hibernation and reared his head over Cambridge. His return must be a shock to those who believed him safely buried forever. But he is with us for a short visit at least, and to our rulers he is an unwelcome guest. The laws of diplomacy, not to say self-preservation, require his handling with kid gloves. Yet there is a dark hint of exile: would it not be well to banish the unfortunately immortal serpent once more, and break off diplomatic relations with the animal kingdom...
After having inspected the pictures and reports about the sea-serpent which was definitely seen a few weeks age on the coast of France and was reported to be the first unlegendary one which had over been observed, Glover M. Allen '01, associate professor of Zoology and curater of Mammals at the University Museum, has identified the creature as a bottle-nosed whale, known to scientists as Hyperoodon Ampullatum...
...latest theory brought forward by Professor Allen is that the sea-serpent mania comes as a direct result of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Another contributing cause may be the complexly of modern life which demands some from of psychological release from the worries of the N.R.A. Sea-serpents were never seen by the sailors on the clippers which sailed out of Salem in the old days. It takes warm spring weather and a brisk tourist service to develop really good monster crazes...
Obviously Nemesis is right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...
...tomb, found no threat. Only malediction ever discovered in any Pharaoh's tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...