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Word: viper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee's Viper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alphabetterer | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Having fashioned a maul to viscerate the vicious viper Evolution (TIME, Apr. 6), the state of Tennessee, last week, rolled up it's sleeves for a trial swing. The viper was placed in a convenient viscerating position by one George W. Rappleyea, business man, who complained that one J. T. Scopes, Science teacher in the Rhea High School (Dayton), had "taught Evolution." The charge particularized that Teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alphabetterer | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...pounds of mutton and 14,000 wa- termelons-for 50,000 people at the farm of Dr. Arthur W. Nelson, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri. Some 50,000 people attended, and some went hungry. Mr. Davis was properly provisioned and then spoke: "Privilege creeps like a viper into the administrative chambers of your executive departments . . . Where can there be found such a chapter of shame in American history as that which contains the names of Fall, Edwin Denby, Harry M. Daugherty, Charles R. Forbes, Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Klan, being unwilling to attack a woman, is driving chiefly against her husband. The Klan papers call him "buzzard", "yaller dog", "old skunk", "he-viper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Me For Ma | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...Budapest, one Martin Romler, barkeeper, tapped a barrel of beer, drew off two foaming steins. A customer drank one. He drank the other. A few seconds later, both simultaneously fell to the floor dead. In the barrel was discovered a drowned viper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jack | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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