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Visitors to the New York Aquarium last week attempted to elbow their way past guards into the laboratories to see the Aquarium's now most famed visitor- two-inch, red-finned, green-bodied Wat Chant Aiur Bopiter, Siamese fighting fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ferocious Minnows | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: 29 War Boats | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...Holy Father as he is carried through St. Peter's, but last week the fervor of those expressions reached pandemonium when it was seen by all that the Pope's jaw was set, and that he visibly clenched it harder as the Sistine Choir burst into a mighty chant of "TU ES PETRUS!" ("Thou art Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Petrus v. Satanus | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...name of this astonishing goddess? at once political and religious?is of course "Mother India." The political anthem and the religious chant of her devotees is Bande Mataram ("Hail Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

While priestly lips formed the Latin syllables of a majestic chant, a small wad of chewing gum issued from the lips of Signor de Palois became imperceptibly affixed to the tip of his whalebone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Whaleboning in St. Peter's | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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