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...fights. Bettors wager on either the fights or the main. There are 24 different sets of rules, all derived from the Old Royal Pit Rules of England. Usually the pit is a platform about 20 feet in diameter, covered with tanbark, matting or carpet. The birds are put together, beak to beak, in a chalk ring a yard wide at the centre. A rail around the edge of the pit keeps them from falling out but a "squawker'' or a "runner'' can jump the rail if he feels inclined. Fighting cocks wear over their natural spurs...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...
...British took the initiative?they pointed the way !" cried beak-nosed French Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin in Paris last week. He was speaking of the bold lead taken by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain when he offered to holders of $7,500,000,000 worth of 5% British War Loan Bonds the alternative of asking repayment of their money in paper pounds or accepting new bonds paying only 3�% (TIME, Aug. 15). This example. M. Germain-Martin handsomely declared, gave him courage to offer holders of $3,332,000,000 worth...
...dives at them, 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...