Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along with stimulating professors, steam-heated dormitories and appetizing coeds or local debutants. But the student is not summoned out into the night to take part in a pop rally because the Chair in Astronomy has been a terrific dull for the past two weeks, nor does he snake dance or ignite bonfires when some wealthy old fellow, departing for Valhalla, wills the university five or six hundred grand for an architectural atrocity to be tacked onto the Field House and known as the Hiram K. Washboiler Memorial Wing...
Thus did the Senate lose its foremost sarcastigator, the Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty...
...home town. A good deal of jovial intercollegiate rivalry exists and always will, which is natural. Undergraduates will back their team to win and cheer the players, but with somewhat less enthusiasm than a Boston hockey fan would back the Bruins. After the game is over and a snake dance indulged in, or watched casually, the student can join his friends from Dartmouth or Yale or whoever the game may be with for a pleasant evening in Boston. With the exception of the team and the attaches, few undergraduates care...
...first job Philip Sidney Hanna ever had, 19 years ago, was on the Economist, Chicago financial weekly now owned by Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, built up by his eldest son, "Snake" Jr. (now publisher of the Chicago Evening-Post), and published, with the Chicago Journal of Commerce, by younger son John Dawes Ames. Last week Phil Hanna returned to the same scene as editor of the Journal of Commerce. He will also have much to say in the Economist. For the last ten years Reporter Hanna has been a potent financial writer in Detroit, since 1924 Detroit representative...
...snake data which Dr. Ditmars collected in Central America were for his projected book (to be published in October) on poisonous snakes of the world. That will be his third scholarly treatise on snakes...