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...either Harry Cowles' Shop or to Leavitt and Peirce's and sign up in the blue books for the class tournaments. Entries will close Thursday and play will start immediately. Each class will have its own tournament and the high men will form a class team. A round robin schedule has been arranged for the three class teams. The members of the winning team of this league will receive their class numerals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Tennis to Start | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

General John Joseph Pershing, changed by Time and the War from hardboiled brigadier to dapper boulevardier, stepped with his crisp cock-robin stride from the Place de la Concorde into the ornate lobby of the Hotel Crillon. An excited reporter from the Paris Herald rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of Herrick | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...General rose. A braided doorman solicitously took his elbow. "Blackjack" Pershing seemed about to faint. The commander of the A. E. F. brusquely brushed the doorman aside and stalked to the elevator, cock-robin once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of Herrick | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...sportsman named Joseph Cochrane ("Cock") Robin was found dead with an arrow through his heart. A man named Sperling (German for sparrow) was suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...killed Cock Robin? "I" said the sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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