Word: snaked
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...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...Bible is depicted as one who ... cursed a snake, sewed skins together for clothes, preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage; who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks...
...honor Pasteur Institutes have been established over the whole world. The latest is at Bangkok, where snake serum is being developed. There was even a play written last year to praise his life...
...This "sucuri" was an anaconda, water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...
...Wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised hero of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books...