Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course covered 16 countries and three continents, required night & day flying over country perilous with jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mi. jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson...
...made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan tries to tell about is "the truth of my presence on earth." In his own person or in thin disguise he writes about barber shops, bawdy houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist...
...monkeys and turtles as pets in Harvard dormitories are no longer news, but a lazily affectionate three foot water snake as a solace to weary hours of study is at least unusual...
Once rid of its skin, the reptile will resume its menu of dead goldfish, which its Sophomore master wheedles from the ten-cent store, and will resume its role as Exhibit A in Mr. Folk's lectures on snake-lore...
...room-mate was a "little upset" last year at the prospect of being so intimate with the heastie, but this year's neighbors seem to take it in good part although the plot may thicken if Barnard's enterprising snake-fancier his wish to add an eight-feet pine snake and a bos-constrictor to his little family...