Word: serpenting
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...With this double check those who might have hidden under their bed or in the closet would be caught and promptly disciplined. Nobody would suffer; the lecturers could be guaranteed a peak audience and proper acoustics. But most important of all, the University could take pride in stopping the serpent-tongued cutting habit before it could start...
That's Rich (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS radio) stars Stan Freberg, known to televiewers as the voice of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent on Time for Beany, and to record fans as the author and star of the bestselling Dragnet parody, St. George and the Dragonet. In his new show, Freberg plays the part of Richard E. Wilt ("When you think of wilted lettuce, think of me"), a gentle bird watcher and shipping clerk, whose lack of aggressiveness makes Wally Cox's Mr. Peepers seem like a pushing extrovert. Scriptwriters Frank and Doris Hursley have supplied Freberg...
...Pope Paul Ill's master of ceremonies, Monsignor Biagio da Cesena, objected to the many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...
...best expressed in The Jewish Encyclopedia discussion of Moser, Vol, IX, p, 42: "An informer, denunciator, or delator.... Nothing was more severely punished by the Jews than talebearing; and no one was held in greater contempt than the informer ... the sages of the Talmud compared the moser to a serpent.... The great Talmudist of Lucena, Joseph ibn Migas, caused an informer to be stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public...
...snake skin which you may believe The serpent cast that tempted Eve. A fig-leaf apron, 'tis the same ' Which Adam wore to hide his shame . . . It is my wish, it is my glory to furnish your knick knackatory...