Word: snaked
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...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...
...Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...
...from Casablanca. After the ten-day conference was over he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill drove 150 miles to the ancient city of Marrakech, with its grove of palm trees at the foot of the snow-topped Atlas Mountains, with its musty 16th-Century tombs and its square, where snake charmers, jugglers and native dancers perform in the afternoons...
Buna village had been taken, but Buna Mission, one mile to the west, had not fallen. Nor had the center of the snake-like line between captured Buna and captured Gona. The Japs were so well supplied and had dug in so strongly that they had to be dug out almost man by man. As one correspondent put it: "Destroy your opinions of this as a little side show. The numbers of men involved and the strategic importance of the objectives are relative things anyhow. Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless...
...Second-Century Christian who added this "false ending" to Mark may have had in mind such passages as Luke 10:19 and Acts 28:3-6, but there is still no genuine word of Jesus which, literally interpreted, could encourage the snake-handlers...