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...eagle represents the U. S.; the lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Agnus Pontificis | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular uncle, buried twelve years, was exhumed, assayed, found to contain enough arsenic to kill a team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev to arrest the terrible Mrs. Fazekas. She saw them coming, instantly drained a stiff tumbler of her potent essence of flypaper and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Midwife Fazekas | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

University -- "The Cock Eyed World", with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

University--"The Cock Eyed World", with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

Keith's--"The Cock-Eyed World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/10/1929 | See Source »

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