Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a snake out of clay. "He has a considerable grasp of spatial values...
...Snake Specialty. With the boom in vet medicine has come a tendency to specialization. In metropolitan centers where the trade is concentrated, some vets practice exclusively on dogs or cats or birds. Los Angeles' Dr. Norman Gale has made a name as a specialist in the complaints of snakes, turtles, tortoises, lizards and frogs. (Gale has performed Caesareans on two snakes; he could not save the mothers, but did not lose a single wriggling baby.) Burbank's Dr. J. Bradley Crundwell gets the feathered trade, mostly parrots, parakeets and canaries...
...Dresser, the Episcopal minister who performed the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake Paw Paw, Mich, and taking them home in a peach basket. ("We always wondered what happened to that snake that got away in the Pullman," says his sister.) His second interest was foreign nations. His third interest was organizing the neighborhood...
...snake: a vein on the forehead that to Third Avenue veterans is a telltale sign of heavy drinking ("the snake is out"); a condition similar to "the elevens are up" (see above), but less serious...
...novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...