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...face the sun. It was called 'adoration.' The evening ceremony was the great thing. In one corner was a chair in which Mr. Crowley sat in front of a brazier in which incense was burned. There was a scarlet woman who wore a jeweled snake under her robe. There was a sort of hysterical business. [Once] a cat was sacrificed. The knife was blunt and the cat got out of the red circle. That was bad for magical work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rascal's Regress | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...eleven-year-old girls from Sarasota, Fla., one carrying an indigo snake, the other with a 6-ft. corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...more dramatic contests of the period was the '87 Princeton game, which Harvard won 12-0. For a while there was no score, while the Crimson players watched Nassau's full-back, "Snake' Ames, very closely. His nickname was well-earned; he was as slippery as an ecl. Near the end of the first half, Ames received the ball and began wending his sure way through the Harvard team...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...delegates had little chance to blow off steam until Phil Murray's nomination for re-election to his eighth term as president. They voted him in by acclamation and gave him 20 minutes' worth of howling, snake-dancing and table-thumping. Then Murray did some thumping of his own for price controls and smacked the Government for being "definitely derelict" in its duties. Later he was asked if he meant to include Harry Truman in his criticism. He did. Said Murray: "In this country we can criticize whom we choose, when we choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taming of the Left | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...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 »

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