Word: snaked
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...dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...
...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...
...schools under the old regime. The proposal of von Mach to involve the American Legion in the tangle of a German-Irish alliance, proves that the old ideas of German imperialism have not died out entirely, and that German propaganda cannot be reckoned with lightly. "We have scotchd the snake;" but so long as we are indifferent to her still persisting life, we remain "in danger of her former tooth...
...statement that a 'howling mob of McGill University students here tore down an American flag in Montreal on November 20th, spat on its trampled it underfoot and then did a snake dance on the soiled and trampled remnant,' is wholly and unqualifiedly untrue. The entire story which follows, established on these false premises, is equally untrue...
There is probably no single feature which so impresses a neutral spectator at a Harvard-Princeton, Yale-Princeton, or Yale-Harvard game as the traditional snake-dance ceremony, wherein the victors march to the stands where the vanquished await them, for an exchange of cheers. Saturday Princeton cheered Yale and Yale cheered Princeton with a heartiness unexcelled during the game--a striking evidence of the good feeling existing between the two Universities. Visitors from New Haven found quite as warm hospitality at Princeton as they have found at Cambridge in the alternate years, and it is this fact as much...