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Word: snake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about some snake bite?" asks Larry. A nice guy, because snake bite turns out to be White Horse Scotch. We all sit around, and I tell the boys a few sexy stories, and they sit on the edge of their chairs, because they have it rough up in Hanover. There just aren't any broads to play with. This talk about how good I am with the broads makes me a real fine guy, although they can't go for the ruptured duck I wear, it is easy...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...that any resemblances were coincidental: "It's only because living people frequently run to type.") But few could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sunday in the Park | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...garden, reading. Silently it slithered behind her, raised its head, spread its threatening hood. As her father, looking up from his book, saw the cobra swaying above her, he whispered a tense warning not to move. Realizing that some danger lurked behind her, she stayed quite still until the snake slid away into the grass. From that day on, her superstitious mother was sure that a great destiny awaited the little girl, for there is an old Indian legend that luck will attend a sitting or sleeping person above whom a cobra has spread its hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Robin Redbreast | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Tennessee, some 150 members of the Dolly Pond Church gleefully sang, chanted, passed rattlers and copperheads around in defiance of a six-month-old state law against handling snakes at public gatherings. When deputy sheriffs hauled nine of the snake-handlers off to jail, some of the others followed, tried, like Joshua, to shake the jail walls down (with hymns and prayer), declared they would not stop their rituals because "We take our law from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Through Pampanga Province in the Philippines last week ran another tonsorial tale: to see who was king of the newly born babies, a bird and a snake had fought. The bird won, but the snake threatened to kill all babies with hair on their heads. The story traveled fast. In five towns Filipino mothers had their children's heads shaved. The barbers had never done such business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Razor's Edge | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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