Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduating class of nurses at the Charity Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born, for I am the youngest of 16 children and God bless my mother for every one of them! . . . Thank heaven that I was born! And if I do say it myself, I have not done so badly in my lifetime...
...lived in Elmwood because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable...
Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...
Stampeding, snake-dancing. The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sidewalks of New York, the steam-roller--all the accouterments of the Great Deadlock of 1924 found their way into New Lecture Hall for two evenings, and Harvard saw a convention that proved to be a remarkable facsimile of the Democratic meeting four years ago. Not only in the superficial aspects of cheering delegates and persistent, singing did the gathering at Cambridge resemble its national predecessor; but, even as the party was obliged to compromise in 1924, so did the mark convention compromise last evening...
...obliged to "retreat" until only one survivor, Dr. Brydon, reached the Indian frontier as "a half dead man on a half dead horse." Not less notorious than the fierceness and atrocious cruelty of Afghans in battle, is their characteristic instability which gave rise to the Indian proverb: "Trust a Snake before a Harlot, and a Harlot before an Afghan." Naturally assassinations of Afghan rulers have been frequent, and indeed the present King Amanullah came to the throne in 1919 only after other persons had murdered his father, Habibullah, and he himself had forcibly wrested the succession from an uncle...