Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stadium this afternoon, when the whole student body will migrate to Cambridge in the wake of their football team. Five cheer leading will combine their forces in an effort to get a good response from the rooters. Between the halves the visitors will entertain the spectators with a snake dance as the University Band will be unable to perform...
...Speaking of the R. O. T. C. General Pershing is reported to have said--"It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges . . . Where these units exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting it for some years to come...
Included among the advertisements were " PE-RU-NA," "The Utah-California Exploration Co." and " Vinex, Formerly Known As Rattle Snake Oil" (cure for deafness...
...King, who owns a snake farm at Brownsville, Texas, has crystallized the venom from 24,000 rattlesnakes and collected it in three hermetically sealed glass jars. He annually buys and sells thousands of snakes, and distributes the yellowish poison crystals free of charge to scientists throughout the world who are experimenting on antitoxins for snake bite. He supplied the great snake farm established by the Brazilian Government at Sao Paulo, Brazil...
SEVENTH HEAVEN-A long snake-whip and a rendering of La Marseillaise off-stage are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a skillfully concocted assembly of Parisian eccentrics...