Word: viperous
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...sallies is that touching dra-a-ama, resurrected in all its pristine glory from P.T. Barnum's American Museum, vintage 18 34,--I speak of "The Drunkard, or the Fallen Saved". Ye may hiss the deep-dyed villian, Lawyer Cribbs; ye may shout "Look out," or "Youse is a viper," as he prepares to enmesh in his toils that jewel, that unfortunate yet loyal wife of the intemperate Edward Middleton. Ye may join lustily in the song "Fare thee well, for I must leave you" and others...
...last year Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium...
...bushmaster ranges from southern Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which...
Whether the typical U. S. tycoon is a hero or a viper is a question which history has not yet settled. Two cinemas which addressed themselves to the problem last week helped to solve it by examining both sides of the penny...
...Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...