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Westermarck, in his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas declares that among the Fiji Islanders the metaphor "as tender as a dead man" is in good use; and that throughout the South Seas human flesh is well known to be a delicious food "far superior to pork."
Finally I am indebted to Romilly's Western Pacific and New Zealand for a receipt for preparing human brains. The natives of New Zealand were accustomed to stew the brains in "Sak-Sak," a concoction of sago and cocoa. The dish was "pronounced delicious by white men who had...
Voyage. Jolly ship-news reporters welcomed home to Hoboken last week the U. S. liner Republic. Promptly they smelled a delicious story of bourgeoisie abroad. The stewards, deckhands, pursers, eager to chatter, reported that for 51 days they had been nursing a party of middle-western ministers to and from...
Spring really comes to Manhattan with the yearly drums of Ringling's circus. But its premonitory word, its first delicious promise of impending carnival, is the opening of the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists.
"This," said one who marked how Booth's blazing eyes fastened upon the broad blue shoulder of Captain Bob Lincoln and the delicious confiding form of Bessie Hale, "this is the fire of passion whipped high."