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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon from 1 to 6 o'clock and all day tomorrow, the Crimson will conduct a hat exchange in its building at 14 Plympton street for the men who lost their hats during the snake dance. In order to avoid confusion, it is asked that every man who uses this exchange read carefully the following instructions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGE YOUR HATS! | 11/21/1921 | See Source »

...great play, which no team in a depressed frame of mind could have carried through. Harvard's field goal advantage has failed to break down Nassau's spirit or stop her hard fighting to the end of things. It was this great finishing spirit which brought about the Tiger snake dance up and down the field, the first one with a silent Harvard gathering looking on for a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITICS PRAISE PLAY OF CRIMSON IN SPITE OF DEFEAT | 11/7/1921 | See Source »

...dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE AND THE PASSING WORLD | 3/18/1921 | See Source »

...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VAN AND CORBETT AT KEITH'S | 2/23/1921 | See Source »

...schools under the old regime. The proposal of von Mach to involve the American Legion in the tangle of a German-Irish alliance, proves that the old ideas of German imperialism have not died out entirely, and that German propaganda cannot be reckoned with lightly. "We have scotchd the snake;" but so long as we are indifferent to her still persisting life, we remain "in danger of her former tooth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALF A WORM | 2/11/1921 | See Source »

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