Word: eatening
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...that human beings have been eaten in isolated cases but unfortunately your editor gives the idea that this is just a little pastime...
...famine area is remote from "show places" of interest to travelers, who will see no babies eaten; but in the streets of Native Shanghai (not International Shanghai) there were picked up last year, according to the Shanghai Benevolent Society's official report, the corpses of 28,620 yellow babes.-ED. Again, Norfolk...
When a Gracious Sovereign sees fit to reward an Englishman for his deeds or generosity he may knight him. The College of Arms (or Herald's College) looks through its worm-eaten records, trumps up a coat of arms for the new Lord. Its members* may even try to picture on his shield some connection with his name or works. If his name is Rokeby, his arms may bear the device of three rooks. If he has been an intrepid seafarer, his heraldry may suggest it with a ship...
Birthday. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; at Washington. Age: 68. Said he: "I am drawing dividends on the life I have lived since boyhood. I've never, never drank liquor in my life. I've never smoked. I've always eaten good, plain food and loved work. I never was lazy and never saw a time when I didn't have plenty to do. I've wronged nobody...
...seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed...