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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rhymes : one about the three foxes, who had no stockings or soxes, but kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes ; about rice pudding ; about Little Bo Peep and Little Boy Blue (they loved each other) ; about the Doormouse and the Doctor (they hated each other) : about four animals - elephant, lion, goat, snail - who were friends. With every rhyme there are pictures by E. H. Sheppard which are better than the rhymes if you like pictures better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When We Were Very Young* | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...Annapolis, two cripples met, one a self-styled lion, one a so-called goat. Limping, hobbling, they tussled until nightfall, when the Navy goat had to admit that the absence of Shapely, one of its curliest horns, was too great a handicap. The Penn State or Nittany lion came off with two field goals. Score: Penn State 6, Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 10, 1924 | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...last year. It bowed to Marquette last week, crumpling completely in the last quarter after leading the enemy for three periods. Princeton looks, however, for sterner opposition than Lehigh furnished, but expects to win. The three upper classes of the Naval Academy 1600 strong, with their famous Navy goat will attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BITTER BATILES ON MANY GRIDIRONS TEST STRENGTH OF EASTERN ELEVENS | 10/18/1924 | See Source »

They led it around on a string and they laughed. The goat walked with an air of injured dignity. On his back, he wore a placard: "William Allen White." The Imperial Klonvocation of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan was in uproad. This was in Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Kansas | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...Astoria, L. I., an Italian was called to court by health officers for harboring his goat, Jack, in his cellar. Ordered to seek other pasturage, said the Italian: "Me no keepa da goat; me eata da goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jack | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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