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...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Seattle | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...recovered and cremated the former's body off Leghorn (it was he who snatched Shelley's heart from the pyre and buried it in Rome), fought beside Byron in Greece (it was he who investigated the dead Byron's feet and spread the lie about a cloven hoof), married a Greek chieftain's sister, suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership--in short, a shingle--might be used with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope that we should receive an assurance of kindred feeling from a certain society in that college which is situated in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1875 MAGENTA ADVOCATES STARTING AN H. S. P. V. | 1/27/1925 | See Source »

...Haughton's problem was to beat a veteran cloven, familiar with Harvard's style of play, with an inexperienced eleven, having only a second-hand knowledge of Princeton's tactics. Tufts had beaten Tufts the following week, 3 to 0. On the strength of that record Princeton should have been the favorite. Man of man, the advantage in weight, experience and skill was undoubtedly with Princeton as it was in the contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Test for the Haughton System. | 11/14/1916 | See Source »

...windows, and fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy's Ibis Visits the Crimson. | 12/2/1885 | See Source »

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