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...declared abrogated the Sino-Japanese Commerce and Navigation Treaty of 1896. Baron Tanaka contended in a stiff note to the Nationalists that the Treaty cannot be abrogated except by mutual consent. Though the Japanese legal position is strong, Chinese consider it "outrageous" for Japan to demand the pound of flesh which is her due under this old treaty, originally signed with the Chinese Imperial Regime, which has been defunct for a decade and a half...
...crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains of the juice. Every day there were new ceremonies, until Capt. Cook sailed away several weeks later. One of his crew had died; the Hawaiians thought that rather peculiar, but otherwise they were satisfied with the visit of the Great White...
Boathooks jabbed at a semi-skeleton from which half the flesh had sloughed away. Seeing a glint of gold at the wrist, Captain Bougrad warned his men not to let it slip off. When peered at it proved to be an identification bracelet engraved: Captain Loewenstein, 315 Rue de la Science, Brussels...
...told that without being asked at all, she stood up before these two police officers*. . . saying that she had been sitting in the park within three or four inches of a man with her skirts above her knees, with pink petticoats, and presumably flesh-colored stockings...
...method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...