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...Pacific, the tanker Java Arrow picked up 14 men from the helpless and drifting Japanese steamer Taishin Maru No. 3; flashed the message ashore: "Men uneat last 20 days, no water last five. Caught rats, made soup. Later caught no more rats; crew...
...London, the Prince did indeed partake of dinner?"a dinner of sorts." For some months he has been under the care of Dr. John Weir, noted Scotch homeopathist, who is said to have "mercilessly cut down his usual diet," caused him to abandon "the two extremes of dining, soup and cigars," and restricted him to "four denicotinized cigarets per day" and no wine or spirits until dinner time ?all this because Edward has allegedly found himself "growing nervous...
Finally those who tottered to Les Halles (the public markets) for breakfast, drank a farewell toast in steaming peasant soup to M. Carpentier, "georgeous Orchid Man." He had announced his intention of sailing within the next few days to fulfill a cinema contract in California...
...London many a great baron of beef* was roasted. Many a vast tureen of steaming turtle soup was carried to that annual and immemorial feast, the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall. This year the "new" Lord Mayor is Sir William Pryke, aged 78† and "spry as Peter...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...