Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script, in short, is just a barrel of soggy tanbark, but there are plenty of comic spangles scattered through it-e.g., the midget who is wakened every morning by the kiss of a giraffe, and the snake merchant who spends the better part of the picture polishing a lady python...
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public...
...Later, Alligator. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., after horrified school authorities closed her dormitory reptile zoo containing two turtles, a foot-long alligator and a scarlet king snake, Bryn Mawr College Sophomore Marianne McDonald sighed: "It seems hard to believe that everyone doesn't like reptiles-the little snake was a symphony in color...
...them students from Korea University and the National University of Seoul, both anti-Rhee strongholds. "Overthrow Dictator Syngman Rhee," they shouted. Some climbed over the train and smashed windows in an effort to view Shinicky's body. Then, when the body was transferred to an ambulance, demonstrators snake-danced through the streets after...
...mother-in-law had become angry with him, evidently wanted him out of the way so her daughter could marry a Groote Island aborigine. So, Charlie gasped from his iron lung: "I bin sung." Explained a fellow tribesman, acting as interpreter: "Him bin sung song of dreamtime snake. When you sung snake song, snake coils around legs and arms and chest, and you no longer breathe. If I bin sung, snake get around me, and I bin finished...