Word: slithering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballad singer Susan Reed smiled prettily yesterday over her slither-like "ever" lovin," pointed through a glass window to the cluster of WHHV official standing shyly in their control booth, and complained that although Harvard men are "fine," they always "hide in the next room...
...summer day, it is a place to feel cool by watching the seals slither through the blue water. Looking at the monkeys, a zoogoer can conclude that they resemble the family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he can feel weak, unarmed and humble; at a gorilla, helpless; at an echidna (a mammal that lays eggs), vastly superior. Zoo men have built their exhibits on the proposition that if the proper study of mankind is man, a subsidiary and equally wholesome occupation is the contemplation of the lower animals...
...wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism, and badly oriented American troops sell nylons and democracy for nightly fraternization. These are all familiar themes, stories that fill the columns of our daily papers. But the effect of the news releases cannot approach the impact achieved by portraying...
...offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement, and in their own way Miss Dunham and her company dance, slither and writhe expertly...
...green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...