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...generally accepted is this illegal sport that last week advertisements introducing to the U. S. the Austin, smart diminutive vehicle, using a caricature of a bantam cock for an emblem, carried a bright series of colored pictures showing five crises in the course of a cockfight (TIME, March...
...other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
...dogs who are then penned together in metal and concrete pens and given a killing dose of carbon dioxide gas if after 48 hours they are unclaimed or deemed unfit to be given away. A. S. P. C. A. agents, aided by state police, last week broke up a cock fight at Goshen, N. Y., arrested 125 men, rescued 49 cocks. Its revenue is derived from members' dues and donations, as well as dog owners' license fees. Yearly expenditures approximate $500,000, with a deficit of $20,000, covering operations in New York City. Although a state organization...
...which droshky-moujiks administered to their horses. In London, he visited the Royal S. P. C. A. and on his return to the U. S. began moves for a similar organization. At first he made butchers driving to the abattoir untie the legs of calves, scolded horse beaters, haled cock fight fanciers into court. In 1866 he obtained a charter for the A. S. P. C. A. Later in life he suffered from dyspepsia, wrote childish plays, attended first nights at the theatre. P. T. Barnum attended his funeral...