Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vipers. Sometimes 12 ft. long with 2-in. fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed...
...night last week as people began emerging from New York theatres there swept upon the city on the tail of a north-west wind hundreds of thousands of pristine white moths. They clustered in shop windows, in pedestrians' ears, started a report that snow was falling. They blinded motorists, delayed traffic. In dance halls they got between the cheeks of dancers. In dark taxicabs they caused many a false accusation. At Bellevue Hospital internes with folded newspapers beat them away from alcoholics who might have mistaken them for seagulls. Thousands perished on freshly painted lamp posts. Police were called...
...matters up my sleeve and I'm a long way from being through. I have a contract with the Government and it has been broken. Retired? Don't put it that way. I've had a tin can tied to the end of my coat tail...
...Cleveland Negroes lustily applauding. They watched the Girl prepare for sacrifice in a real 30-ft. waterfall provided by the Cleveland Fire Department. A murky grey light failed to clarify the opening scenes, but through it gleamed brown, almost nude warriors, splashed with orange paint, in white head and tail pieces. Small children capered about...
...near. Squinting up with quizzical beady eyes or grunting angrily he is sent running over a long viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis...