Word: snake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When I returned from the movies tonight, my roommate squirted a siphon of water all over me. Not only that, the snake had covered my toothbrush with soap, and to finish off the dirty business, had carefully arranged Concord grapes all over my bed, so that when I got in I slipped back and forth and squashed the grapes until I felt like a jelly fish. I think he had been drinking...
...domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms; cats "rarely, if ever, have rickets, rheumatism, chorea, tetanus, or become poisoned by snake bites"; morphine crazes...
...year after the opening of Spam's bloody, but undermanned civil war, neither Leftists nor Rightists lack able staff officers. What both sides do need is enough troops for effective action on five separate fronts that snake for nearly 1,200 miles down the midriff of Spain. For some months military observers on both sides have cynically propounded a convenient rule: they will concede definite military superiority to whichever side is able to maintain an offensive for three successive days...
...Southern coast of Maine between Portland and Penobscot Bay, scores of tidal inlets snake from the sea between mud-flat peninsulas, crab-haunted and reedy. In these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped...
Last week a Washington, D. C. woman died of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease which until recently was found only in the remote Bitter Root Valley of Montana and the Snake River Valley of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The woman's skin was dotted with typical pinpoint hemorrhages, her lungs and kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which...