Word: diamondback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...
...Palm Springs, Calif., Dr. Raymond Bridgman Cowles, student of desert snakes, got sick & tired of uninvited guests. Dr. Cowles surrounded his camp with a double line of mesh fence, in the runway between the fences let loose a number of diamondback rattlers...
...virtues of Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Mr. Chrysler lost. Lately the Colonel's large face and broad shoulders have been appearing in Phillips soup advertising in the same...
Your article, "Snakes & Rain" of issue Sept. 5 is indeed interesting, especially the last part of the story on p. 26 which deals with the Hopi Indians and rattlesnakes. From my experience with the great Florida diamondback rattler, timber or mountain rattlesnake, as well as with the Seminole Indians with whom I hunt, no person, white or Indian, is immune if a large rattler, with its venom sacs filled, injects this poison through its hollow fangs into your body. Personally, I do not believe the Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after...