Word: cannibalisme
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One of the 32 had been Lieut. E. V. Holmes, U. S. N. Says Harmon: he committed suicide by jumping out of the boat. On account of his death a naval investigation was held. The Dumaru survivors decided to tell the truth, the whole story came out but no arrests...
When Fred Puleston ran away from home at 17 and went to Africa as an agent for Hattan & Cookson he stayed there off and on for 14 years: 1882 to 1896. In this book he reminisces, makes statements that may surprise. Says he: All white men (except missionaries) of his...
The eggs, as soon as laid, were penciled with the date and the name of the mother, and were then distributed among his friends, or sparingly eaten at his own meals. To eat a chicken itself was a kind of cannibalism from which his whole nature shrank. "I do not...
Gourmands saw further possibilities in the impending war with an upland tribe whose three offences were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had...
The answer is, not vice, but the word vice, and especially the meaning of the word vice in the historically great tradition of U. S. Puritanism. Actually the word is simply a general term signifying the opposite of virtue. If habitual kindness is a virtue, then habitual unkindness is a...