Word: snake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...
...Snakes & Fiats. The U.S. press has broken free from some of the outdated taboos and cliches that still keep news-writing stilting along behind the racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...
...Limits. Texaco has hit a new, and somewhat cynical, note by delivering its commercial through a carnival pitchman who impartially plugs snake-oil cures and Texaco products. The commercial ends abruptly with the sound of a policeman's whistle and the pitchman's panicky flight from the stage...
When he was through, the Dixiecrats howled and snake-danced for a full ten minutes...
Intruder. In Kemalpasa, Turkey, surgeons removed from Arsan Tekkanat's stomach a foot-long snake that had slipped in as he slept with his mouth open...