Word: snaked
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...John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases for $10,000 apiece...
...aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon...
...billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares. Sometimes it is warm and there are good "vittles"; sometimes it is cold as a dead snake...
That enthusiasm for Captain French's team is running high was evidenced last night by the Freshman mass meeting in Smith Halls quadrangle. Led by members of the University Band, the Freshmen snake danced around the Freshman Athletic Building, with flaming red torches lighting their way. Close to 500 were gathered in the quadrangle when the first eleven emerged from the Common Room and filed across the quadrangle to seats on the east porch...
...punch, pep, and knew what was coming next every minute. On football Harvard was satisfies with straight football, and their dancing was the same way. Out in the Stadium, Dartmouth put on trick plays, and here they went in for the Charleston. Yes sir, they put on a snake dance in Cambridge and they also had their snake dance in here...