Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wounds, it forms pus. If they get into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules of the liver and of certain passages of the kidneys. They are the causative...
...Their shades are too heavy--their shadows too broadly etched. Miss Standing and Mr. Neill are not completely convincing as the "Half Ways". The audience is slow at understanding, but they are rather slow in helping them to understand. Mr. Mowbray as the cynic who tries to "Scotch the snake" of life has excellent moments, due perhaps to his possessing the nicest lines of the play. Yet he fails to maintain the consistency of Prior's character by ranting at times as no Priors ever rant--even when convinced that they are soundly, irrevocably dead...
...John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases for $10,000 apiece...
...aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon...
...billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead snake...