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...buddy and I seen this snake wrigglin' into the hole; it was a little green snake, and they'd tole us it was real poisonous. We couldn't get out of the hole. They woulda got us for sure. So Jimmy he reaches over real careful and grabs the snake by the neck and he squeezes him until he is dead and then we start shootin' at the gooks again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: We Didn't Ask Why | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...United Browning Families assembled for a basket supper, quartet singing, a speech by State Legislator Lewis Browning, and discussion of the erection of a Browning Memorial Building. Organized last year, U. B. F. draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo. Best known is Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head, Red Wing, Kraut, Fuzzy, Biscuits, Ivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 16, 1935 | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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