Word: snakedance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"No one stopped work, even for a minute. If anyone walked too slowly, a hippopotamus whip in the hands of a military overseer snaked out to draw blood.
Negro Oze Edward Simmons, son of a Fort Worth janitor, arrived at the University of Iowa on a freight train, enrolled in the class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. As a freshman, he ran through the entire Iowa varsity six times in one afternoon of football practice...
Three days prior to the anniversary celebration, King Fuad's son, solemn Crown Prince Farouk, 15, said good-by to his four small sisters, left the royal palace at Alexandria to be trained as a British army cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At...
Yet another hurricane sprang from Honduras last week, snaked round the Caribbean, then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed...
Like swamp fire, revolutionary feeling snaked underground from Bolivia and Peru (see col. 3) last week, to break out in three different places in Latin America.