Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no single remedy," Governor Roosevelt began, "that will by itself bring immediate prosperity to the agricultural population of the United States. . . . Our economic life today is a seamless web. . . . This nation cannot endure if it is half 'boom' and half 'broke...
...last month Ernest Davis, water department foreman of St. Charles, Ill., saw in the corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
...Charles learned of the struggle going on in the pumphouse, began dropping in to watch. Within a week bets were being laid, with the snake a heavy favorite. Then the watchers noticed a curious thing. The spider, always working out of the snake's reach, was pulling the web tighter and, fraction by fraction of an inch, the snake was being lifted from the floor...
Long before the spider has been assassinated with a gas bomb the mystery of The Web has been punctured by several large, jagged holes and the cast, following pointed suggestions from the audience, has decided to make the rest as funny as possible. As Playwright Herendeen probably told himself when he wrote it, there is no reason why The Web should not do well as a cinema...
...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. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes...