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Word: tarantula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spokane, a tarantula crawled over Grocer James Wilson's little finger. Because James Wilson had a horror of tarantulas, an exaggerated fear of their venom, he seized a butcher's cleaver, cropped off his finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...together by famed Medical Historian Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, included a "Frottola" by 16th-century Composer Marchetto Cara, written to help cure the Marchese of Mantua of syphilis; a piece played in the 17th Century to cure tarantism, popularly believed to be caused by the bite of a tarantula; hymnlike music originally addressed to St. Sebastian, who was believed to protect the faithful against the plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pathology | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Montgomery, Ala., stopped by Patrolman William Collins for speeding his banana truck and for reckless driving, Truckdriver R. L. Hathaway gave as his excuse that he had a tarantula in his pants. The policeman slit open the trousers of R. L. Hathaway, flicked out the tarantula, blackjacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like a map of No-Man's-Land minus the compassion which even that scene would evoke. An earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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