Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dodger fans understood that Leo had been frustrated almost to distraction in his attempts to marry Movie Star Laraine Day. First, he had to wait for the California courts to grant her a divorce from her first husband (who had as good as called Leo a snake in the grass). When Miss Day's interlocutory decree came through last week, it was with the usual California stipulation that she would have to wait a year before remarrying...
...Yearling's dramatic scenes are cunningly, almost too-knowingly manipulated, but they are nonetheless effective: the bear hunt, the ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...
...Lewis can strike, so can we!" shouted one of the kids. Soon there were 1,200 of them snake-dancing through four miles of Jersey City streets. They didn't like a change in their classroom hours. It took the mounted police, the pleadings of teachers, the threats of truant officers and two days to get all the strikers back...
...brings us to the present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
Conspicuous around the "campus" are the mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...