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...downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely "in the back garden of a Brigade cocktail party." When, a few days later, crewmen of the Margate lifeboat dragged Hillary, comatose, out of the North Sea, they rushed him ashore to have his burnt flesh caked with protective tannic acid...
...Hawaiian undergraduate is reputed to have limited his alcoholic refreshment exclusively to a unique native brew whose inspiring taste and disastrous after-effects he attributed to the dead, green snake which was allowed to "mildew" inside each bottle of the unusual fluid...
Dream Walking. In Portland, Ore., a sober policeman put his hand in a drunk's pocket, drew out a snake...
...machine worked dually: aboveground, and under. While Rosenberg, as "Underground Foreign Minister," played for internal revolution and collective treachery (Riess is sure that every South American political crisis since 1933 has a German somewhere in its woodpile), men like Ribbentrop took care of individual, strategic and semiconscious traitors. Ribbentrop snake-charmed the Cliveden set, with the help of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfurst, who modestly confessed before a British court that it was she who made Munich possible. Canaris, who had worked with Mata Hari in Spain, founded Personnel Department...
...more Byron could be close to the Shelley circle, which had gained a new recruit in dark, hawk-nosed, piratical Edward Trelawny (The Adventures of a Younger Son) who, to Byron's annoyance, looked and acted like a Byron hero. Trelawny discovered that Byron had nicknamed Shelley "The Snake...