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...Foreign Relations, who fired the loudest shot last week. Said he: "What the report at Geneva relative to our joining the Court means, stripped of all unnecessary verbiage is that the United States must change its reservations or consent to a construction of them which will emasculate or wholly destroy them. This brings the whole subject up anew for consideration...
...from a downtown burlesque show. She is vital. She turns handsprings, plays with a parrot. She is not like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine manners destroy her piquant charm. She reverts to handsprings, to the parrot. It ends happily and is almost utterly devoid of sense or beauty...
...ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something he has just remembered, a wrong done, a score that must be evened, something that happened to him long...
...bacteria, just so every kind of bacteria has a bacteriophage which kills it. He has not seen these bacteriophages. But he has measured them. The diameter of each one is between 20 and 30 millicrons or about one-billionth of an inch.† Also, he has seen how they destroy a bacterium. One or more bacteriophages, of the kind peculiar to the bacterium under study, penetrate the body of the germ. There they breed until they number some 18, when they become too many for the bacterium to contain any longer. It explodes into floccules, minute yet visible below...
...biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically he protested to the League that Abyssinia, a League-member-state since 1923, should be obliged to tolerate the existence of a series of Anglo-Italian notes, exchanged last December, published recently, establishing: 1) The recognition by Britain and Italy, respectively, of Italian...