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...bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than sand sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Swim | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...seemed to have an excellent chance of reaching an age where- U. S. immigration policy permitting-he might cause U. S. headlines: "Kid Confucius, Freshman, Comes to Old Penn" or, since many an able Chinaman has played on a U. S. college team, "Duke Boots Hot One to Trounce Tiger Soccerites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great-Grandson 72 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Ladies and gentlemen! I have said, and still maintain, that essentially, when considered objectively, the Jew is an excellent individual. But is not the rose-beetle with its iridescent wings essentially also an excellent creature? ... Is not the tiger . . . and do we not hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...little Irishman (Mickey Walker, onetime welterweight champion) knocked a nice black man (Tiger Flowers) down on his haunches with a smack on the jaw. Up jumped Flowers and began to lace the countenance and torso of Walker with a long left hand in the manner of a man painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling by investment their income. Charles was the most picturesque of all, a sentimentalist. Said he: "I go out to the 'menagerie,' and look my monkeys and tigers and lions in the face. It is there I see my measure. . . . When a tiger snarls at me ... I look him in the face. . . .What have I done that I shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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