Word: serpents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burlesque of Johnny Ray's bestseller Cry, is the work of Stan Freberg, 25, an exponent of the Al Capp-Henry Morgan school of humor, who is otherwise known to Los Angeles' junior TV fans as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent on the Time for Beany show...
...patient." Neither King nor Premier could now capitulate completely to the British, even if he wanted to. Instead, the new Premier decided to turn first to corruption within. He suspended Parliament for a month, and shut down his old Fuad University, which, he said, had become "a rumor serpent." A few days before, Fuad students had paraded with placards threatening riots if the British were not thrown out within 20 days. Then the Premier announced, in a note to the King, that he would get after the corruption and nepotism which had poisoned the Wafd party. "Parliamentary seats are sold...
Brandishing his mock-serpent scepter, Lucifer proclaimed in mixed Spanish and Indian that he was the Prince of Darkness, and proved it with impressive leaps and tooth-grinding roars. Immediately...
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...