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...Snake-eaters, Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more...
...Figaro" Mozart Ballet Music Gluck-Mottl Tambourin--Gavotte--Chaconne Turkish March from "The Ruins of Athens" Beethoven Ride of the Valkyries from "The Valkyrie" Wagner Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Suite, "Namouna" Lalo "Children's Corner," Suite Debussy-Caplet "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Indian Sketches Gilbert Prelude--Invocation--Snake Dance Largo Handel Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
...courage to take the stand, maybe your Honor-I am sorry to say this because you are an old man, and I have an old father- but maybe you would be beside us in good justice at this time. . . . "I would not wish to a dog, or to a snake, to the most low and misfortune creature of the earth-I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. . . .I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed, I am a radical; I have suffered because...
Able son and namesake of an able father, Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr. was called "Junior" by his family to avoid confusion. After "Junior" was abbreviated to its first syllable for convenience, friends, to tease, spelled it "Jew." The able father, Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames, was also a footballer; derived his nickname from his elusive, "squirmy," hard-to-tackle action as quarterback of Princeton elevens...
Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...