Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story on p. 26 which deals with the Hopi Indians and rattlesnakes. From my experience with the great Florida diamondback rattler, timber or mountain rattlesnake, as well as with the Seminole Indians with whom I hunt, no person, white or Indian, is immune if a large rattler, with its venom sacs filled, injects this poison through its hollow fangs into your body. Personally, I do not believe the Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster...
...doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that the Indians have a potent secret antidote for snakebite. Others suggest that the snakes are goaded to strike at bits of cloth during their imprisonment in the kiva, so that their venom is all discharged by the day of the dance. Still others point out that the rattlesnake is no traveler, that the Hopi gather the same snakes year after year and these snakes are really friends of the Hopi...
...fight ratification with what was left of his party. Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born owner of the Daily Express, for years an advocate of Empire Free Trade, was delighted. Said the Express: "Credit goes supremely to one man, Bennett, whose sincerity and patriotism won for him the sneers and venom of a considerable section of the British press...
Bush Masters, Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, curator of mammals & reptiles at New York City's zoo, announced last week he would leave next month for Panama to hunt the bush master, largest, deadliest of 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...
...Burma-all are set forth as "stock deals" in which Mr. Hoover profited while outside shareholders were losing their shirts. The whole book is written in a vicious insinuating style with rhetorical questions ("Did Hoover do this? Why, bless your simple heart, no!") and cruel jibes. Regardless of onesided venom, however, each page is made to bristle with figures, names and dates about oldtime Hoover companies until the reader does not know what not to believe...