Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...
...licked. But a few hours later he rose and addressed McNeil. "It would be well," said he, "if you would confine yourself to English fables, for perhaps your repertory is more complete. You made the mistake of not studying all of Krylov. One fable is The Slanderer and the Snake. I am not going to tell you whom I am thinking of; you can interpret it as you wish...
...snake and the slanderer, according to Krylov, engaged in a solemn argument as to which should go first, and each said the honor should be his. The problem came before Beelzebub...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
...studio knew what it was getting. In his 14 years, Zanuck has won two Irving Thalberg Memorial Awards for high-quality production, two Oscars (for Gentleman's Agreement and How Green Was My Valley), and a reputation as Hollywood's outstanding topical trailblazer (The Snake Pit, Pinky). What Zanuck was getting: $260.000 a year (his present salary) for the next 10 years, then an annual $150,000 for his advice...