Word: serpents
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...live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom...
Roaring, grunting, shouting, squeaking, last week Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows opened its 1930 season in New York's Bronx Coliseum. Like the perennial sea serpent story and the yarn of the rat that nibbled the baby, Manhattan pressmen took their cue, played up Circus because Circus is always news...
...serpent swallowed a frog and was subsequently clubbed to death by a huntsman. During the clubbing the frog emerged alive, hopped away...
...story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape of the snake's neck, triumphantly hauls away the corpse...
Omen. Before men are done to death in battle, before walled towns are razed and wide-wayed cities sacked, there is almost invariably a potent omen. At Aulis it was a serpent with a blood-red back. In Roman days it was frequently a pair of eagles or a flight of swans...