Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snake v. Ruth...
...improbable and as fetching as the language they are told in. Uncle Cedric, onetime gnu-hunter, all-time bore, is shot by the vindictive Charlotte; Archibald wins a bride by his one accomplishment, the imitation of a just-successful hen; Roland gets into terrible trouble because a snake has been put in somebody else's bed-and so on. When Mr. Mulliner is speaking, no one else can open his mouth-or even wants to, except for the occasional, irrepressible guffaw...
Fire moves quickly in wooden barns. An oil stove in the men's quarters of the Reether Stable had somehow exploded. Two minutes later a snake of fire ran down the corridor between the stalls of the horses, licking at wisps of straw. All the horses were awake now. They stood tense and beautiful in the darkness, sucking in the smell of smoke with deep, noisy snorts. Men were running about outside...