Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McDowell went out to ask Albert Johnson a few questions. They knocked on the cabin door, but Albert Johnson did not answer. Three bullets splintered the door and smashed into Constable King's chest. McDowell did not wait. He dragged his friend to their sledge and cracked his snake whip as loud as Hermit Johnson's rifle. Tongues out, the husky dogs plunged forward. They made the 100 miles back to Aklavik in 20 hours. It was a record and it saved Constable King's life...
Alarmed by a report of the Southern New York Fish & Game Association that copperhead snakes were invading Westchester County, the Westchester board of supervisors pondered offering a bounty for dead copperheads. But first the supervisors wrote for advice to Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, curator of reptiles in the New York zoo and famed snake fancier and expert. Last week they got it. The Fish & Game Association was wrong, said Snakeman Ditmars. There was no copperhead menace in Westchester County yet. But a bounty might be a menace. Dead copperheads would be brought into the county, many a harmless milk snake...
Died. Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, 62, broker, president of Booth Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest...
...school in Clearwater, Fla., Charles Martin, 13, listened to a lecture on snakes, heard that most snakes are not harmful. Soon after that, while on a fishingtrip, he saw a young snake little more than a foot long, decided to capture ot amd study its habits. A friend helped him get it into a cage, carry it home. There Charles Martin made a pet of his, amused himself by playing with it, poking his finger into the cage to see what the snake would do. He did not know was a poisonous rattlesnake. One day the snake grew tired...
...cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There...