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Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...
...India snake charmers are an impoverished, filthy, untouchable lot of Jogis. With woven baskets containing their trained pythons or cobras they traipse about villages and towns. For an anna or two the charmer sets his serpent on the ground and blows through his pungi. The pungi is a bottle-shaped gourd with two reeds or bamboos inserted. One tube has finger stop-holes and emits a shrill penetrating whine. The other has no holes and gives out a drone. Snakes have no ears. But under their skin they have two primitive ear drums and through those the Indian snake feels...
Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. The fangs are long, hollow teeth connecting with venom sacs in the snake's upper jaw. When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow...
...retirement of Mr. Hertz, last week, was complete. He resigned as president and chairman of the board of Chicago Yellow Cab Co.* He sold all his holdings to Charles A. McCullough, of Parmelee Transfer Co.. who becomes chairman of Chicago Yellow Cab Co. Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames Jr., 33, son of the famed Princeton footballer, himself a fair footballer, recently general manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, becomes Yellow Cab's president...
...fate of the skunk is a problem worthy of our legislators, of the Debating Union, and the CRIMSON. A skunk is no laughing matter. The fate of the owl, the hawk, the snake, the fox and the skunk are chapters in the conservation of wild life from rugged individualism...