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...Tennessee legislature decided that freedom of worship had its limits, passed a law prohibiting handling dangerous reptiles "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." Reason: in the past two years, two ministers of Tennessee's fanatical snake-handling religious cults have died of snakebite...
Personal Taste. In Detroit, a judge said it was all right- legally- if Mrs. Grayce Milton wanted to do her shopping with Nokomis, a six-foot pet king snake, coiled around her body...
...perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
Dodger fans understood that Leo had been frustrated almost to distraction in his attempts to marry Movie Star Laraine Day. First, he had to wait for the California courts to grant her a divorce from her first husband (who had as good as called Leo a snake in the grass). When Miss Day's interlocutory decree came through last week, it was with the usual California stipulation that she would have to wait a year before remarrying...
...Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...