Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Britain's tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...
...second wife, beauteous, Italian-blooded, 25-year-old Lady Lampson recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...
...indication of how deeply dreaded and how widely expected is war from the air. Officials of the London Zoo ordered deep pits dug under the Zoo gardens to store the more valuable animals, gave keepers rifles to shoot any that might escape from bomb-damaged cages, ordered all poisonous snake; and spiders killed immediately war began
Blumgarten minimized the importance of the snake dance alleged to have taken place, and said it didn't last more than a minute. He also recalled that at one point the band broke into "Hit the Line for Harvard.", indicating no animosity...
Discovering their achievement when they reached Quincy Square, the exuberant Yardlings snake danced about the young musicians until Cambridge police arrived on the scene...