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Cobra. One of those plays in which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
...falls a prey to the viperous, beguiling wife of a friend, who makes rendezvous with him in a questionable hotel, then entwines him in snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel burns down and the incandescent lady with it, perhaps from spontaneous combustion. The athlete then faces the problem of either enlightening his friend, driven frantic by his wife's inexplicable disappearance, or of leaving him ignorant, anguished but resting comfortably in his illusions about his wife...
...Davis: "The man with the snake mentality hisses...
With the dying wiggle of the final snake dance, football becomes largely a matter of theoretical bitterness. During the season one may bet on one's theories; now it is only possible to sputter. Those whose business it is to sputter in print have drawn up the following list of sectional champions...
Both goal posts were paraded in triumph through the three miles of mud and puddles between the Stadium and the Yale Club immediately after the snake dance in the Stadium. One of the uprights of the goal posts was slung horizontally across the second floor balcony of the Club. The remaining pieces were taken inside the club for future...