Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition started in India, and Hindu fanatics, and snake-charmers, and fire-eaters are shown in turn. Then the explorers passed through Baluchistan to the famous Vale of Kashmir, and on the Napal, the mountain country. Passing through giant forests, where the temperature averaged 100 degrees, they finally reached the timber-line; and farther beyond came to the pinnacle-perched Tibetan monasteries. One of these, at a height of 16,000-feet, is the highest abode of living creatures in the world. Here the inhabitants drink immense quantities of tea, and here polyandry the opposite of polygamy is the rule...
COBRA?The snake of sex sloughs oft its skin and stands quite vividly bare...
Cobra. One of those plays in which sex is held up to reproach. It is a natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
...falls a prey to the viperous, beguiling wife of a friend, who makes rendezvous with him in a questionable hotel, then entwines him in snake-like arms. But he wrenches himself loose before the lights go out. After he flees, shaken in everything but his honor, the hotel burns down and the incandescent lady with it, perhaps from spontaneous combustion. The athlete then faces the problem of either enlightening his friend, driven frantic by his wife's inexplicable disappearance, or of leaving him ignorant, anguished but resting comfortably in his illusions about his wife...
...Davis: "The man with the snake mentality hisses...