Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch...
...send your husband to jail?" asked Mr. Anthony. "He deserved it," answered 28% of the women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent...
...farm near Carrollton, Ga., Nathan Brown was stung by a bumblebee, ran toward his house, was bitten by a green snake, headed for town, was bitten by a bulldog, pulled into town in a bad humor...
...snake took one look at the mouse, slithered in one end of the cage, tripped a centre pan which crashed down heavy mesh doors at both ends, trapping the snake. Dr. Ditmars released the snake. The snake did it again. Said Dr. Ditmars: "Astonishing. I have discovered the snake trap. Make me up a batch for my trip to Trinidad late this summer...
...need a mouse for the snake trap, I have a mouse trap, to catch the mouse to catch the snake with. I catch a copperhead snake first time I try. Always tell a copperhead because he smells like cucumbers. Now I make a trap for alligators. But not for elephant. He walks away...