Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
Magistrate Pinto, sighing, last week dismissed the charge, shooed out the massive Methuselah. "Go along now. Try to behave from now on." The iron man breathed heavily, took a reef in his galluses, clumped home to his dogs and cats and the 21-ft. snake in the dusty...
...enable the curse of the juju-a black snake-to emerge and attack any prospective thief. The commanding officer of the flight speaks very highly of the efficiency of the juju, and I concur with him, observing that before the installation of the juju no wind sock ever remained in situ for more than 48 hours, while after its application the wind sock was untouched...
...Lady Eve (Paramount) is Writer-Director Preston Sturges' third straight comedy hit (following The Great McGinty, Christmas in July). It displays a complete set of highly original box-office wiles from the opening moment when a cartooned snake wriggles down the title and gets stuck trying to crawl through the O in Sturges' first name. The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor, with 25 swank costume changes, and reveals homespun Henry Fonda, with a drawing room haircut and 14 sound tailoring jobs, as one of the screen's most socially eligible juveniles...
...snake-specialist son of a millionaire brewer. Returning from an Amazon snake hunt, on the ship he falls in love with a member of a card-sharping trio (Barbara Stanwyck) who has stroked his hair, tickled his ears and seemed eager at just the right moments. Says he in the midst of her seductions: "It's funny to be kneeling here at your feet talking about beer." She comes to feel just the way she seems, but temporarily conceals her past to protect her partners. When Fonda finds out, he gives her up. Out for revenge, she arranges...