Word: snakeskins
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...Alone his glorious mustache would have been enough to command the respect of the stoniest of Mayfair's headwaiters. But added to the mustache were such other facts as the fit of the Savile Row suits, which clung to his lithe frame with the easy perfection of a snakeskin, and the verve with which he followed hounds with the Cornwall Hunt...
Mamie was a belle and a leading spirit even as a little girl. "When the rest of us were still getting kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch...
...magic practiced nowadays is not black (evil) but the white magic of healing. Despite laws against witchcraft, hundreds of curanderas (healers) compete with Mexico's doctors, offering cures for everything from bellyache to heartache. In treating mal de toloache (an intestinal disorder), the curandera (see cut) wraps a snakeskin around the patient's head, opens the doors and windows so that the evil spirits can escape, and then chases the spirits by making crosses with crow feathers...
Tourists behaved as tourists should, trekked dutifully to the Floating Market and the Cobra Farms, gawked earnestly at the gleaming Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
...juju consisted of a bunch of chicken feathers well soaked in chicken blood and held together by strips of snakeskin. The witch doctor buried the juju in the earth at the foot of the wind sock...