Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...
...Kotaro Tanaka, conservative ex-Chief Justice of Japan and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose deep respect for the law was outraged by the actions of Tokyo's snake-dancing anti-U.S. rioters earlier this year ("influenced by a foreign power...
Ironically, Asanuma was largely responsible for creating the atmosphere of violence that has recently plagued Japanese politics. A rabble-rouser who never tired of praising Red China, or of calling the U.S. "the common enemy of China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance...
Boulder, Colo. Sir: Jack is the next of kin to the old medicines (I hesitate to call them snake oil) which were sold from wagons to people. It was claimed they could cure TB, baldness, hives, and any other affliction on earth. Undoubtedly Jack has created the greatest mass of hot air since Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp...
...Mencken-who called Bryan "a tin-pot pope" and lamented that Darrow might as well be "bawling [his eloquence] up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan"-the monkey trial made screamlines all over the U.S. and Europe. Bryan and Darrow put on a spectacular sideshow, bellowing like snake-oil salesmen, crassly subverting judge, jury and the rules of evidence as they addressed their elocution to the larger court of public opinion. "We have the purpose," Darrow thundered, "of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States." And Bryan roared: "If evolution wins, Christianity goes!" Both...