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...down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cleopatra | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...more rivers to cross; when Coolidge and Rodgers play at Waldron's and an oyster is good for a hit in the ninth, then and then alone, and so forth. There are those, ladies and gentlemen, who prefer the bull fight; there are those who prefer the cock fight; and "Ghost Train" still draws crowds; but, and here may I quote Hamilton Jefferson Detroit Plymouth who said, "If a circus have but a single ring, that ring rings true...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...What is a "cock-horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 2 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Ride a cock-horse¹ to Banbury Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papist Symbol | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apron | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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