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...time that try men's souls." So said Tom Paine, at the beginning of the American Revolution. He said a lot more, during the course of that struggle; he tactfully remarked that General Howe "showed an inbred wretchedness of heart made up between the venomous malignity of a serpent and the spiteful imbecility of an inferior reptile;" he laughed at the Tories, then cursed them; and he stirred the people. But if he had lived today, he would have found a new enemy, and faced a struggle for which he could have found no words. One can no longer...
...Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck and tail, a button head. It had rough skin with a dark ridge down...
...Chinese terminology 1929 was the Year of the Serpent, 1930 the Year of the Horse, 1931 the Year of the Sheep. 1932 the Year of the Monkey. U. S. automobile men, who produced 5,621,000 cars in 1929, might have little objection to these names: 1930 (3,510,000 cars) was comparatively a year for the horse; 1931 (2,472,000 cars) left the motor industry looking rather sheepish; 1932 (1,431,000 cars) made monkeys of those who had high hopes for an automobile comeback. To the Chinese, 1933 was the Year of the Cock...
Last week toothless little St. Gandhi writhed in embarrassment at news from New Delhi. A brand new automobile, ordered on approval, had gone roaring down the road 70 m.p.h., hit a bump, overturned. Out rolled Serpent Goddess Nilla, bruised, battered, but bitterly determined to lead her own life...
Before the reporter had finished asking Pete if he had any tattoos himself, the talented artist had ripped aside his ragged shirt and lo. and behold! a huge squirming serpent slithered slowly across his heaving chest. "His name Medusa", proudly explained 'Pete. "The grand master, he done that. It take him two days. He say it do best masterpiece he ever...