Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement that a 'howling mob of McGill University students here tore down an American flag in Montreal on November 20th, spat on its trampled it underfoot and then did a snake dance on the soiled and trampled remnant,' is wholly and unqualifiedly untrue. The entire story which follows, established on these false premises, is equally untrue...
There is probably no single feature which so impresses a neutral spectator at a Harvard-Princeton, Yale-Princeton, or Yale-Harvard game as the traditional snake-dance ceremony, wherein the victors march to the stands where the vanquished await them, for an exchange of cheers. Saturday Princeton cheered Yale and Yale cheered Princeton with a heartiness unexcelled during the game--a striking evidence of the good feeling existing between the two Universities. Visitors from New Haven found quite as warm hospitality at Princeton as they have found at Cambridge in the alternate years, and it is this fact as much...
...Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...