Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SNAKE PIT (278 pp.)-Mary Jane Ward-Random House...
Titian-haired Virginia Cunningham, whose trouble is schizophrenia, is the heroine of Mary Jane Ward's novel, The Snake Pit, which has already caused a mild stir in psychiatric circles, and netted Author Ward over $100,000 in advance royalties. It is based on Author Ward's own experience as a patient in an Eastern mental hospital...
...fowl is covered with fur, which is very similar to that of a hare, and it eats grain, vegetables and grass. It is especially fond of alfalfa. The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral...
...Mother. It was not surprising that The Goddess of Crete (known variously as the Triple Goddess, the Earth Mother, the Snake Goddess-see cut) was the hit of the show: she had a long, ancient history of success...
...chance. Their culture is Creole and Catholic. It is also wise in the sense that it is humane and orderly. It enables them (and the readers of The River Road) to accept with equanimity the fact that their quiet lives are as full of scandalous skeletons as the snake-infested plantation burial grounds...