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...Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster through exercise. I am led to believe the Hopi either goads the snakes into biting a soft substance such as a ball of cotton or soft cloth or "milks'" the snakes immediately before the dance. The "milking'' process is done by holding the rattler behind the head and having it strike into a fabric or parchment tightly drawn across the mouth...
...fingers, might have been much better handled. Ward Morehouse, who wrote it, is a theatrical reporter who knows more about how theatrical people talk than he does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have...
...Sleek, soft-spoken Chancellor Franz von Papen, whose most violent gesture is frequently to take off and twirl his eyeglasses, thunderstruck the world last week by a series of provocative acts, all performed with utmost urbanity...
...drives them down to the water, then the other dives, then the first, and so on for perhaps 15 minutes until the ducks are exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher has made a fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy...
...band out . . . we dance, keep moving and make every one of our varsity players work on one of our six practice boards. . . . There is a circle about one foot round they have to serve in. . . . My players must never grandstand a play, never make the kill when a soft accurate shot will suffice. Energy must be saved. No false steps, no excess movements. No jerks, no wild swinging and no brute strength. Just the cool calculating mind working the system, analytical, severe, fast, cruel and deadly...