Word: snake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled out of the hotel past Japanese police too flabbergasted to arrest...
...Raymboultown, Mich., popped one day last week when he took out the innards of a partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...
Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...
From Chicago the Illinois Humane Society dispatched an indignant note to Mayor Langum, threatening prosecution. One night last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...
...Pittsburgh last week, a householder discovered a six-in. garter snake trapped in a spider web. The snake dangled helplessly while the spider skipped up and down his rope, biting at his opponent viciously. After two days the duel ended. The snake was dead. In Burlingame, Calif., a snake and a spider lived together in a bottle at police headquarters without hostility...