Word: viper
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...Washington, Mrs. Alben Berkley told reporters that she did not like to be addressed as "The Veepess": "Somehow or other it sounds like a snake. I guess I connect it with theword viper. I'd really much rather be called Mrs. Veep...
News. In Rio de Janeiro, after a snake bit him, Francisco Feliciano chased and caught the viper, bit it to death...
...other hand, I thought Al Marre's Edmund was shallow in conception and sloppy in execution. Nancy Marchand was not up to Jan Farrand's earlier performance as Regan, and Miss Farrand herself was not sweet and simple enough as Cordelia. Cavada Humphrey, I think, missed the viper quality in Goneril...
...abandoned butts." (Once he ran away from home and hid out on the common; it was a deeply humiliating anticlimax when his big sister flushed him out after a few hours.) A boy could also escape by reading. Graham was 14 when he read Marjorie Bowen's * The Viper of Milan, a melodramatic yarn about a war between the dukes of Milan and Verona, and "from that moment I began to write...
...most children learn much later, if at all. "Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey . . . I read all that in The Viper of Milan, and I looked round and I saw that...