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Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...several occasions last week Edward of Wales visited Buckingham Palace, accompanied by his little yapping cairn terrier bitch Cora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after a wolf in a story by Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, sits up beside her; she leaves her fox-terrier at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hot Springs | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Nigger, the little yapping terrier bitch of Edward of Wales, † whined disconsolately by day, all last week, and howled eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable terror and grief. Suppose, just suppose the little bitch knew, with feminine intuition, that her master would never return. Absurd-yet Master Wales had set out, last week, to journey a long way away-to South & East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastward, To Empire | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...General Umberto Mobile's little yapping terrier bitch is Titina. *James A. G. Davey (Tree Surgery) said, upon reaching Manhattan last week after a tour across Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastward, To Empire | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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