Word: snake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother was bit by a snake. Father was kicked by a mule and died from it. Husben No. 1, Judge Mitchel shot to death gambling in Florida. Left me with 2 children. No. 2 husben, Harvie Brown Rumelision was froze to death from drinking, left 2 children. No. 3, Jim Henry Johnson, home, Macon. G. A. died of Bright deces, left 10 children. No. 4 husben Shaw Lewis died with stroke diging wells, left 11 children...
This sort of forthright reorganization is almost unprecedented in U. S. railroad history. Before Depression I railroads went through reorganization much as a snake sheds its skin, with bondholders forced to split the loss with stockholders and with railroads often left in just as bad a fix when the shedding was over. After the Federal Bankruptcy Act was amended in 1933 to give ICC power to supervise or rewrite reorganization plans and to allow roads to continue operating with their debts in a sort of suspended animation (Section 77), there came a complete cessation of reorganizations. For nearly five years...
...Snake Venom. From a snake farm near Sāo Paulo, Brazil came Professor Maocyr E. Alvaro to tell of the effects of snake venom on eyes. Snake venom is a highly complex compound of proteins and enzymes which vary in quality and proportion with the species of snake. Two constituents of venom have already been isolated; one is a specific nerve poison which makes an excellent painkiller when diluted; the other is an enzyme which causes coagulation of the blood. There is a third principle not yet isolated, said Professor Alvaro, which affects only the eyes. Patients treated...
Muttering incantations which charmers profess the snakes know and heed, the aged snake man moved about the villa and grounds. "Come forth, O snakes, in the name of Allah! In the name of Allah, O snakes, come out of your holes," he chanted in archaic Arabic. Suddenly he sank to his knees, began to blow a slow, wailing melody on his reed pipe, swaying his body as he played. Out from hiding slid the hooded head of a young cobra, then another and another, until nine young reptiles appeared, raised their bodies from the ground and riveted their eyes...
...convinced ambassador made ready to pay for this service, his servants warned that a huge, full-grown cobra was still in hiding. The charmer resumed his playing and swaying. Soon a much bigger snake than any of the captured nine twisted into the open, slithered across the ground and crawled into the bag with the others...