Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...
...young man behind Nowadays has never held a newspaper job, but he has newspapering in his blood. Gangling (6 ft. 4 in.) K. (for Knowlton) Lyman Ames, 28, is a grandson of the famed Knowlton ("Snake") Ames who played football for Princeton in the '90s and later founded Chicago's Journal of Commerce. While studying at Stanford, "Bud" Ames was struck by the fact that most small-towners, who have lots of time to read, get no magazine sections in their newspapers. Later, as a publications officer for Yank magazine, he spent his spare hours plotting and planning...
...full 30 seconds she struggled to get the needle-sharp fangs out of her middle finger, pressing with all her strength against the cobra's locked jaws. When she had torn the snake loose and carefully returned it to its cage, she calmly instructed the photographer to apply tourniquets to her wrist and elbow told him where to find stimulants and needles. But the needles were rusty and the vials broke in the photographer's hand. "Take me to a hospital at once," she ordered. "This is serious...
...prostitutes-none of the familiar Orozco trademarks. The mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel...
...living man. Yet he has no weakness for the visual wow. He can contrive unforgettable images such as Robinson's bestial lolling in the bathtub (easily the most efficacious tub shot in movie history) or his death under Bogart's bullets, as obstinate as the rearing snake he suggests. But such images are never merely "pictorial" or "effective." Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable. It stamps Huston as the ablest American now directing pictures...