Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow king snake five feet long...
...female secretary almost fainted. Congressmen withdrew gingerly. "Very beautiful," commented Mrs. Owen, She picked up the reptile-a household pet of Dr. Kelly-and let it slide around her neck and shoulders. When the snake was put on the committee table it rustled among papers, allowed Mrs. Owen to pet it. Dr. Kelly explained that king snakes, indigenous to the proposed park, are harmless, destroy rattlesnakes-also indigenous to the area. Confessed Mrs. Owen: she had never handled a snake before...
When the curator of a zoo needs an unusually large cobra for his snake collection or when a circus man wants a small elephant to do balancing tricks, he tells a professional animal catcher about it. The animal catcher takes a trip to the native habitat, brings back one which is the exact size and shape required. For 18 years, Frank Buck has been going to Asia on such missions, has been furnishing U. S. cities with prize exhibits, "firsts," only animals of their kind in captivity, etc., etc. Fortnight ago he published a book telling what an animal catcher...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like a dog-catcher's dog- catcher. When the snake finds itself cornered, it will make...