Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...malevolent phosphorus wave. With a crash as of metallic surf it would topple, advance, cool, form another wall. For some reason the lava moved more swiftly at night. Even from Messina, at the northern tip of Sicily, it could be seen slipping down Etna, like a tiny blazing snake...
...more Harvard men are not wrong Herbert Hoover will be the next President of the United States. A delegation numbering that many or perhaps a few more last night wound its way and snake danced through the major parts of Boston as part of the huge Republican. Torchlight Parade...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
...maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle for transient glory. If success be their reward he plunges over the boxes, with little regard for the grey bearded dignity of his seniors who have drawn the ringside seats, to writhe across the field in a snake dance of victory, chanting appropriate verses of "The Armored Cruiser Squadron," until, massed before the ranks of rigid "Kaydets" he places his cap over his heart while he joins his fellows in whistling taps over the departed spirit of his adversary. If the tide of victory turns against his protagonists he stands...
...pulled a shotgun from the wall, slew the farmer, protected her honor. She is assisted in her getaway by a casual young hobo (Richard Arlen) who, cinemaddicts are to believe, persevered in a platonic companionship. At a jungle (hobo hangout) her sex is discovered when the Arkansaw Snake (Robert Perry) recognizes the contour of her hips, despite her masculine attire, her cropped hair. But Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery) is a vagabond whose rules are: when he is with a gang, it is his gang; if a girl is in the gang, she is his girl. Hopping a freight with...