Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locarno, Switzerland, a traveling salesman got a divorce, married again. No.1 Wife, jealous, hearing that No. 2 was to have a baby, bought a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums, hid in it a lively venomous viper, mailed it to her hated rival. No. 2 opened the package, saw the snake (dead from cold in transit) drop out, gave premature birth to her baby. No. 1 Wife, cornered by police, confessed, will be tried for attempted murder...
...month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South Africa she did not know; but her half-demented captor knew; and the Three Just Men knew-almost too late. The man who was bringing her the deeds was fatally and mysteriously...
...insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from a snake bite if the medicine man pretends to take a handful of ants from his mouth, for ants are supposed to be the poison...
...cutting our way with machete hatchets through dense underbrush, now wading through water up to our knees, with the ever-present fear of the moccasin snake, whose bite is more deadly than that of the rattler, we made our way into the heart of a comparatively unknown region...
...absolute antithesis between Christ and Mexitl?peace and war?is all the more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...